Sunday, March 20, 2016

Do Something!

From very early on I've enjoyed creating things, building things.

On Wednesday I purchased a Raspberry PI 3 from Amazon.   It was delivered Thursday night.   Within just a few minutes, I had this puppy up and running! :-)

On Friday I purchased a 23 inch monitor, I had originally bought a 7 inch monitor for the initial hook up.  I also bought some hobby electronic parts from Gigaparts - breadboard, LEDs, resistors, etc.   I did so to bring up the LED version of Hello World.   By the end of the day I had my little Pi blinking LEDS using a Python program, pretty nice.

On Saturday I wanted to burn a new NOOBs micro SD card.  I downloaded NOOBS, formatted the SD card, copied the files, and now I have a second SD card to boot the Pi with.

Secondly, I wanted to have the Pi run my Hello World LED program upon power up.   So I googled the steps to have my python program run upon boot.   Not bad for a day and a half, Pi now boots and runs my Python program upon power on!

Find the sweet little program here, my first Pi application .

Next up, well you'll have to wait and see, :-) :-)






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