 Hi everyone, I'm Rob from Project Sandbox, a University of Lethbridge Library Initiative. In this video, we're going to look at our Raspberry Pi kits. In the kit, you'll find a Raspberry Pi 3B Plus with a sense hat, the case, and a 16 gigabyte microSD memory card on the back right here. Two meter HDMI cable, a DVI to HDMI adapter, and a power cable with an on-off switch extension. So if this is taken off, you can just click it back on there. Just remember that if you're taking out one of our Raspberry Pi kits, that you have a monitor with a HDMI or DVI input, as well as a mouse and a keyboard, both have to be wired or have a dongle. So to set up all these components, like I said, you need to have your own monitor. With this monitor, I've already attached the DVI HDMI adapter. You don't need to go through that whole process with me. Just make sure you're putting it in the correct port. So once that's connected, you grab your Raspberry Pi, you got your power cable, you have your HDMI. So why don't we connect all those first? So we got our power connected with the on-off switch. We'll connect the HDMI. Make sure it goes in the correct way. And then you want to connect a wired keyboard or a keyboard or dongle and a wired mouse, or mouse with a dongle. Okay, so whenever it's finally set up, you just press the on switch, you'll see the lights on this comes on, the light here comes on, and you'll see the monitor has a nice rainbow screen for you to look at. So now that the Raspberry Pi has started, why don't I show you some of the things you can do with it? The first thing you'll want to do is you'll want to connect to the internet. So to do that, it's just like anything else where you click on the Wi-Fi and you would choose whichever network sign on to it like you normally would. So we're on guest at U of L right now because that's where we are, obviously. First of all, I do want to also apologize to you if anything is jittery on the screen. I'm using the Raspberry Pi to screen capture everything. So it's not the most reliable thing. Anyway, let's look at a couple of the things you can do outside of that. So first of all, the Raspberry Pi runs something called Raspbian, which is like Windows or iOS. It's the operating system that it uses and it's Linux based. So if you know Linux based stuff, you're pretty much golden with this. So why don't we look at a couple of things? The first thing I want to show you is that you can use something called Python on here. Python is how you can do all the coding for the sense hat, the little nice LED matrix thing that I showed you. If you're not sure about everything a sense hat does, you can actually Google it. What we'll go into though is sense hat emulator. So when it opens up, you'll notice that we have the Raspberry Pi image right there and you can control a couple of things with it. This is just the emulator though you're not actually connecting to the Raspberry Pi. If you would like to connect to the Raspberry Pi, we can look at an example. So say we want it to do that rainbow pattern that we saw when it started up. If you go into those little areas that I just showed, you can click on the thing and it's going to open up a Python script with everything that will make a rainbow pattern. The one thing you'll need to do though to connect it to the sense hat is where it says the sense underscore emu. Kind of like the bird. You change it to the sense underscore hat and when you hit file save, you can click run and run module. And then what this will do is it'll tell it to go to the Raspberry Pi sense hat and it'll start running it. I'll let you experiment with this to see what actually happens because it is quite gratifying. At least I find it gratifying. Next, I'm going to show you the terminal. So this is where you go into to actually affect some of the functionality of the Raspberry Pi itself. This is a pretty powerful thing to actually go into. So the terminal uses something called bash to do all the functions that you would actually want it to do. So we're going to put LS and this brings up a list of all the directories that we have. If you would like to change a directory, you can just go to write CD and be mindful this is case sensitive. It's not that intelligent. It can't figure out what you're doing unless you're doing case the way it should be. So this would take us into our desktop just by going CD desktop. So you can play around with that. This is a way to explore what's within all of your different areas, stuff like that. Yeah, just play around with it and you'll get a hang of it or you can go to one of our workshops and talk to Bryson who knows way more than me about some of this stuff. He's very nice fellow. He's very helpful. Okay, anyway, to go up a directory. So say we want to go back to just the Raspberry Pi. You just hit dot dot. Oh, sorry. You go CD dot dot. Then it goes up a directory. If say you're running something and it's not opening, you can hit control C and that'll cancel whichever function you want to do. Let's see if I can do it before it does this. Oh, no, can't do it. Anyway, say you have this giant script running and you want it to stop. Just hit control plus C and it'll stop doing that. If you want to clear all the screen because you don't like all this random junk anymore, you can just write clear and hit enter. It'll clear it off. And then the final thing I'll show you that you can do with the terminal you can do so much more than this. So I want to reiterate that is just if you write pseudo grass Pi dash config just like that. Not just like that. Just like that and hit enter. This will take you into the functionality of the Raspberry Pi where you can change things like the password the network options how it boots. So like what it boots from if you want to overclock it you actually any time I've tried to overclock this it doesn't allow me to so if you can get it to do it. Awesome. Interfacing options. This is where you can really mess up the Raspberry Pi and if you want to I encourage you to do that. If you do mess it up though please just let us know so that we can re-image it and everything will be good to go again for the next person. I don't want to change anything though so I'm just going to get out of that. So I showed you how to use Python just a little bit with the sense hat you'll need to explore it more if you want to know more how to do the terminal a little bit. The last thing I'll show you is just some of the applications that you can use on there. So to find all the applications you just hit on the Raspberry Pi logo and you can just kind of scroll through. So if you notice there's no like name brand software. It's all open source software is generally what you'll find on here. So you can do things like Audacity VLC media player GIMP Inkscape whatever instead of Microsoft Office you have Libra Office stuff. I'd encourage you just to look through things and play with it a little bit because the Raspberry Pi like the whole point of it is that you can do anything to it digitally physically. Please don't break it but digitally if say you want to see what it'll take to totally take out the Raspberry Pi system digitally. Feel free to do that if you want to go into the terminal and you are kind of unsure about what some of the things you're writing will do. That's okay. Try it out. That's the whole point of these things. Anything that you might have been scared to do to your Windows computer totally feel free to do that to this Raspberry Pi. So that's what I have for you. Thank you very much for watching and remember that although we went over different aspects of our Raspberry Pi's that is far from everything that you can do with them. 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