Raspberry Pi 4 Kit Hookup Guide
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bboyho,
MTaylor
Resources and Going Further
Raspberry Pi Accessories
If you are looking to add additional features, check out the accessories to power your Raspberry Pi remotely, build a homemade motion-activated security system, or go retro by building your own arcade controller to emulate classic video games!
SparkFun PiRetrocade
KIT-14007
Retired
Here are some links to our other Pi resources.
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
- Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
- Product Brief (PDF)
- Schematic (PDF)
- Mechanical Drawing (PDF)
- Documentation
- Projects
- Pi Foundation Forums
- Raspberry Pi Forums: Is Your Pi Not Booting? - Basic troubleshooting tips and solutions for a Raspberry Pi that is not booting up.
- The gPIo tutorial
- The SPI and I2C tutorial
Need some inspiration? Check out these tutorials and projects.
Setting up Raspbian (and DOOM!)
How to load a Raspberry Pi up with Raspbian -- the most popular Pi Linux distribution. Then download, compile, install and run the classic: Doom.
Raspberry Pi SPI and I2C Tutorial
Learn how to use serial I2C and SPI buses on your Raspberry Pi using the wiringPi I/O library for C/C++ and spidev/smbus for Python.
Getting Started with TJBot
This post will walk you through setting up your TJBot and getting started with the first three recipe examples provided by IBM.
SparkFun Auto pHAT Hookup Guide
The pHAT to get your projects moving. This guide will help you get started using the Auto pHAT.
Or check out some of these blog posts for ideas.