KCON - Pi Chef Challenge Setup Blog

1. Intro Blog
2. Unboxing
3. Setup   <<<---
4. Gourmet Install
5. Load up some Recipes!
6. Enclosure Planning.
7. 7inch Touchscreen Time
8. AIY Build / Google Voice
9. AIY API & Certs
10. Succes with Google AIY!

With tonight's Blog I wanted to go through the basics of the setup/install of the Raspberry PI before branching out into the more custom options I will be implementing.

Here we have the 3 main parts for this post.

1.  The universal Power Supply

2.  The 32 MB card with Noobs installed.

3.  And of course the Raspberry Pi 3.

Starting off I open up the Universal Power supply, you can see by default this will not work for my standard US power options.

A quick and easy change by pressing in on the middle tab seen above allows me to switch out the plugs.  Now we are ready to roll.

Opening up the Raspberry Pi 3 box reveals inside is this neat brown paper packaging.  I feel like I am opening up an actual dessert!

Here we have the Raspberry Pi 3 card revealed in all it's glory.  Can't wait to get it plugged in and installs begun!

On to the memory card.  Here you can see we have the MicroSD card as well as an adapter if we need to load it into another device that requires the SD card size.  In addition on the product packaging you can see the suggested first steps for Update, Upgrade and Rpi-Update.

Raspberry Pi 3 flipped over and the card inserted.

Here I have added a small usb hub which has my keyboard and mouse off of that and of course an HDMI cable going to the monitor.

Add some power and the little Raspberry Pi is loading up!

Here is the default load screen.  I am going to run with the standard installation options to to maximize the potential for others to duplicate on their own. 

Yes, new installation means no worries for overwrites.  :-)

Here is the screen I will be watching for the next 30+ minutes.  At the bottom I noticed there was a place to change from default UK to US so I flipped the options but I am expecting it to have been too late.  Really needed to have noticed that before I hit the Yes in the above.

Eventually, 30+ minutes later we have success!

Time to check if those UK to US options took or if I need to start changing some items.

Yep, as I had guessed I was too late to get it switched.  Time to change over the various options to match my location and preferred options.

More changes needed.

Don't forget to use this screen option to change your Hostname as appropriate and change the default password from raspberry.

Reboot required.  After that make sure you have networking and get ready to sudo apt-get update and upgrade followed by sudo rpi-update.

This is my final screen after performing the update/upgrades.

This took awhile to get everything loaded and installed so be prepared to let it run for a bit with occasional checks to go to the next stage.

With my next blogs we shall start branching into the more custom options so check back!