SENSORS / CAMERA RASPBERRY PI MACHINE LEARNING

Initial Setup

We're going to get started using the latest Raspbian Lite, we don't need the graphical system and it takes up precious cycles. Start by downloading the latest Raspbian Lite operating system image.

Latest Raspberry Pi Operating System Downloads Page

Burn the operating system image to a Micro SD Card. Directions are available on the Raspberry Pi site.

Mount the SD Card on your computer. Go to the boot partition. You want to create an empty file in that partition named ssh. This will tell Raspbian to enable SSH.

Enable Networking

For networking, you can use either a cable or WiFi. You can find more information about this in our Raspberry Pi Network Setup guide.

Enable Interfaces

After properly unmounting ("ejecting") your card for you computer, go ahead and place the microSD card in the Pi and supply power to boot it up. It may take a few minutes before it's available.

On your computer, SSH into the card using the following:

ssh [email protected]

This is a great time to change your password.

passwd

Open a terminal and run

sudo raspi-config

Permanently Enable SSH through Interfacing Options → SSH
Enable the camera through Interfacing Options → Camera

After that, it will ask you to reboot. Go ahead and do that now.

Update the Raspberry Pi

Update the Pi

sudo apt update sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgrade

and

sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

and

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools

PiTFT Drivers

Next we want to install the PiTFT Drivers. You can find directions in the Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi guide in the Installer Script section.

When prompted, choose 90 degrees for rotation, No when asked if you would like the console to appear on the display and Yes when asked about HDMI Mirroring. This will cause it to install the FBCP drivers, which we will need.