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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Choosing an operating system to install


Because the Raspberry Pi Zero uses the same ARMv6 chip offered in the original Raspberry Pi, it won't be ideal for the latest of all varieties of Linux that the newer generation of models can support. The clear choice right now for the RPZ is Raspbian Jessy. Adafruit Industries has a great set of instructions for installing Fedora Pi on the RPZ, and you can install pretty much any OS that runs on the ARMv6 chip, but the Raspbian Jessie release on the Raspberry Pi website is the most stable and easy-to-use distribution available for the RPZ. For this cookbook, we will use Raspbian Jessie.

How to do it...

On the Raspberry Pi website, the Downloads page offers both a full version (offline install) and a "Lite" (network install) version of the images. Select the full version when setting up the Raspberry Pi Zero, as you will not have network connectivity right away to download the parts missing from the Lite version. Once you have the full version installed, it is easy to get networking configured and everything updated, which we will cover later in the book. Download the latest full version of NOOBS from the Raspberry Pi website, and unzip it to a new directory. After the extraction is complete, you are ready to move on to the next recipe to install NOOBS on your SD card.

Just click on Download ZIP from a browser, and it will automatically begin:

The NOOBS download and SHA-1 signature