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Raspberry Pi Environment Setup Guide

by Danh Doan

Setup Raspbian OS

1. Download Raspbian image from official site [link]

Currently use Raspbian Stretch with Desktop - Release date: 2019-08-04

2. Write image to SD card using balenaEtcher [link]

3. Insert SD card to Raspberry Pi and power it on

After booting, configure Timezone and Language, then update system

4. Enable Peripherals e.g. SSH, Picamera, Audio or Communication protocols: I2C, SPI

   sudo raspi-config

   Select Interfacing Options and Advanced Options to enable

5. Install basic packages

   sudo apt clean && sudo apt autoremove

   sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

   sudo apt install git cmake vim-gtk gedit

Setup OpenVINO toolkit

Follow the installation guide in this blog [link]

1. Download and Extract OpenVINO toolkit

   cd ~

   mkdir openvino

   cd openvino

   wget https://download.01.org/opencv/2019/openvinotoolkit/R3/l_openvino_toolkit_runtime_raspbian_p_2019.3.334.tgz

   tar -xvf l_openvino_toolkit_runtime_raspbian_p_2019.3.334.tgz

mv l_openvino_toolkit_runtime_raspbian_p_2019.3.334/* .

2. Modify Installation Dir in setup script

   sed -i "s|<INSTALLDIR>|$(pwd)/|" bin/setupvars.sh

3. Add to .bashrc

   source /home/pi/openvino/bin/setupvars.sh

   source ~/.bashrc

4. Update USB rule for Pi to recognize NCS

   sudo usermod -a -G users "$(whoami)"

   sh ~/openvino/install_dependencies/install_NCS_udev_rules.sh

Install support packages for Computer Vision

sudo apt install python3-picamera