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Setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero 0 from scratch

Follow these instructions to install a Zero from scratch. This is pretty standard, I'm including in part so that I don't forget it myself in case I want to repeat it.

  1. Flash the Raspian image into a MicroSD Card (the Balena Etcher is a good tool, remember to run it -on Windows - in Administrator mode)

  2. Log in (pi/raspberry as the default credentiaals) and update the settings in sudo raspi-config, including:

    • set the hostname of the device
    • turn on Camera (in my case), SSH, SPI, I2C
    • configure the right keyboard locale if needed
    • configure the Wifi
    • configure Boot to automatically log into the command line
    • change the password
    • when you're done, reboot for the Wifi and remaining configurations to take effect

  3. After the reboot you can start sudo raspi-config again and update the tool, in case new settings appear

  4. Back in the command line, update applications by running sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade -y. This will probably take a while on the Zero.

  5. Install pip3: sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y (to later install Python3 packages)

  6. Install Vim: sudo apt-get install vim -y (because I prefer Vim to Vi/Nano/Emacs when editing text files)

  7. Install Git: sudo apt-get install git -y (to get files from this and other repos)

That's it. Continue with the setup of BME680 and Azure libraries.