Raspberry Pi 5: Getting Started

Video ID: UtLyX72-688

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLyX72-688

Added At: 13-06-25 21:17:11

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Categories: Education, Tech

Tags: Raspberry Pi, Micro Center, programming, tutorial, maker, electronics

Summary

The creator, a YouTube personality, visits the new Micro Center in Charlotte and builds a Raspberry Pi project for getting started with the device. They discuss different generations of Raspberry Pis, their features, and price points. The creator also explores accessories available at Micro Center, such as cases, keyboards, mice, and camera modules.

Transcript

in almost 500 videos I've never made a
guide for getting started with Raspberry
Pi so today at this brand new Micro
Center in Charlotte I thought I'd do
that and this location is special to me
see last year on the Mr be set I needed
parts for button and led controls and
there was nowhere in North Carolina I
could get them the same day they had
almost everything in that Mr Beast
building except for the little
electronics parts I needed yeah just uh
years of collecting stuff little
projects here and there I just have
everything that we would possibly need
you don't have a Micro Center here I
don't have a Micro Center I just wish
they had a Greenville location because
that really would have helped when I got
on set well Micro Center was listening
they just opened up here in Charlotte
it's not quite Greenville but that's a
heck of a lot closer than Atlanta and I
mean other channels talk graphics cards
PC builds and even Apple stuff but when
I come I head straight to the maker
section and Raspberry Pi is front and
center for this video I wanted to try
out two projects perfect for getting
started with a Raspberry Pi building a
remote p camera and building an indoor
air monitor everything I need should be
inside this building and yes Micro
Center sponsored this video by the end
of it I'll build a great starter pie rig
and we'll give it away to some lucky
visitor here in Charlotte the first
thing you have to decide is which P to
get there are five generations of
Raspberry Pi and they're also completely
different form factors in each
generation like this tiny Pi zero fits
almost anywhere but it doesn't have an
ethernet port or full sizee USB the pi4
and Pi 5 have that but they're kind of
naked boards you have to buy a case a
power supply and all those things then
there's the pi 400 this kit that's 99
bucks comes with a pi built into a
keyboard a mouse a power supply and it
already has P OS installed so you can
just plug in a monitor and you're done
but each Pi has its own merits like the
pi Zer isn't full featured but it only
costs 15 bucks and sips a tiny bit of
power great for things like remote
sensors or time-lapse cameras the pi 5
starts at 60 bucks but it's about as
fast as a basic cheap PC but just tiny
and with tons of maker friendly EXP
expansion options the pi 4 is like the
pi five but slower and you can get it at
35 bucks all the pies are great for
different projects but today I'm going
to stick with the latest version the pi
5 it's the most flexible Pi for anything
from programming sensors to machine
learning I also need a keyboard and
mouse you could use any old set but I'll
grab the official Pi versions along with
a pi5
case that's it for the basic kit but for
a camera project I'll grab one of the pi
camera modules this version has built-in
autofocus and it's a about as good as a
mid-range smartphone camera the tiny
size means I can put it almost anywhere
like this one watching my 3D printer to
build an air monitoring station with a
pi there are a lot of options I could
buy individual sensors and Microcenter
has tons of those but one board I love
is pyron's enviral plus air quality
sensor this thing comes in two versions
that both use the Pi's gpio or general
purpose input and output pins GPO pins
are one of the Pi's superpowers and
they're really what makes a pi a pi I'll
grab the plus version but before we head
over to build the P I'll grab a couple
other accessories in this aisle when I'm
hacking on a p project I like to have
the pie mounted up on a tray instead of
buried inside a case this acrylic case
is perfect for that I can run it without
the top for easy access to everything
there are also tons of other hats
adapters and other project boards I
almost never leave this aisle
empty-handed that's the danger of living
close to a Micro Center there are also
other cases so many cases and I'll be
posting a video covering some of my
favorites soon so subscribe I also
grabbed an Acer monitor micr Center had
on sale for 99 bucks and I like this one
because it has built-in speakers and I
needed storage for the pie so I grabbed
one of Micro Center's premium micro SD
cards you can actually budha pie from a
hard drive or SSD too but Micro SD is
easy and cheap as long as you get a
decent card and one last thing the piie
camera doesn't have any way of mounting
it to a tripod or anything so I found a
3D printable case online and I know
Microcenter has 3D printers in the back
so I'm going to see if I can get a case
printed I have the the print file on
here and I'm going to try to get this to
go I've never used an A1 Mini before but
hey what you doing over here oh sorry I
I need to print something for my video
and I was wondering could I print it on
one of these sure what type of filing
are you going to need I didn't think
about that but I saw that you guys have
a really cool new way of getting
filament here yeah it's a vending
machine can you show me how that works
sure
can what kind of color do you want well
I was thinking like a raspberry Pike and
a red uh cool so these swatches show you
how to print it okay so like you just
this is actually that filament print
these are actually printed shows you how
it prints allots that is cool all right
well this says red but it looks a little
orange I think this is a little more
close to the raspberry pie red all right
so uh let's grab one of these how does
this work so we just take it over here
scan it into the
machine and then it rotates around
that one's
out of course I picked the only one
that's empty we got like 20 of that one
so if you don't find it the first
time goes to the next one and we do have
it there oh right here awesome well
thank you can can you uh could you take
care of that for me while I shoot the
video sounds good yeah
so unlike a desktop PC this actually has
everything on one board that's why it's
called a single board
computer and that is the Raspberry Pi 5
you have the ports over here the GPI
pins and the processor the memory and
the storage goes here and I I got this
Micro Center card it's 256 GB and it's
super tiny and it doesn't have an
operating system on it so I'm going to
put it into the pie but but uh we're not
going to have an operating system yet
we're going to get that through the
internet once we plug it in to work with
it I'm going to use this Pi
keyboard so they didn't have the red and
white one in stock so we have the the
black and gray keyboard which actually I
think looks a little nicer but it
doesn't match the uh Pi
aesthetic but it does have a matching
black cable the pi keyboard also is nice
because it has a built-in USB hub so you
can plug multiple devices through it one
thing to keep in mind though uh it
doesn't have that much power so you're
not going to like charge your phone
through here but you can plug more USB
devices and the pi Mouse is nothing to
write home about but it's a mouse it has
two buttons and a scroll wheel that
clicks on the pi5 there's USB 2.0 ports
two of those and USB 3.0 ports a
keyboard doesn't need that much speed so
you should plug it in on this side you
could plug it on on either side but if
you're plugging in a hard drive or
anything else that needs a lot of speed
plug it into the blue ports and I can
plug the mouse right into the
or I can also plug it into the back of
the keyboard
here and this mat is not ESD safe but
it's probably okay uh but I do like to
have the pie in a case or on something
so that's why I bought this acrylic
stackable case I'm going to use this
without the fan on it for now that way
I'll have easy access to all the ports
on the pie and this case comes with some
heat sinks which I can put on these the
pie runs okay without any heat sinks but
if you want the best performance you
want to run with a heat sink and it's
nice that they include a fan here to get
some air flow over it just to keep it
from overheating and thermal throttling
and losing a little
performance and it looks like this kit
was actually made for the pi4 which has
a more squared off heat spreader on the
top but it's still it still works it's
going to provide a little bit more area
for the heat to come off you don't
really need a heat heat sink on the uh
the Wi-Fi module but this one is a
little big for that power module which
actually can get a little hot uh so if
you get a heat sync kit for the pi5 it
usually has a smaller one for that but
we can run it without it it should be
okay
[Music]
and once I deploy a pie I'll put a fan
on it but for this testing that we're
doing right now we don't need a fan it's
not going to overheat not in the open
air like this although today it's 93 in
Charlotte so we'll see and I'm going to
put these rubber feet on the bottom just
so it doesn't slide around too
[Music]
much one neat thing about this case in
particular is it's stackable you could
actually put another case on top of this
one and have them stacked up to build
your own little pie cluster if you want
I have videos on that USB plugged
in and then the pi five this is
something I don't really like about all
the pi4 and Pi 5 generation they have
micro micro
HDMI which means that you need an
adapter cable if you want to plug in a
standard HDMI
monitor they sell one and it's like
bucks but it' be annoying like the
monitor comes with a cable so you have
to buy an extra cable just to plug it in
I would rather just have fullsize HDMI
so you didn't have to deal with this
plug this into the
monitor there it is and then I'll plug
the Pi's power supply into power and uh
if you're using a Raspberry Pi 5 it's
good to get the official power supply or
another one that provides at least 25 to
30 wats because uh the pi5 does need a
little bit more power than the pi4
generation but you can use other power
supplies too it's just you might not be
able to do things like plug an SSD or
hard drive into it and have it be
working so now if I plug it in it's
going to turn on right away but it
doesn't have an operating system and the
easiest way to do this is to plug it
into your network using an ethernet
cable and if you have internet access
you can hold down the shift key on the
keyboard and it will boot into the
network installer if you don't have
internet access then you'll need another
computer and on the other computer you
can plug the micro SD card in and use
Raspberry Pi's imager tool and then you
can Flash the Raspberry Pi operating
system onto it there um but in my case I
do have an ethernet cable with internet
so if I plug this
[Music]
in hopefully it's actually plugged in
somewhere I didn't check that beforehand
so we're uh changing course a little bit
I found out that this ethernet cable is
plugged in but it only works in certain
scenarios and not with the Raspberry Pi
so I'm going to take the micro SD card
out of here I'm also going to shut down
the pie by holding down the button on
the front until the little LED turns red
and I'm going to flash it using my Mac
uh using of course a dongle because
Apple doesn't believe in having card
slots on their computers so I'll plug
this in here and then I'm going to use
Raspberry Pi imager on my Mac so this is
a very similar process to what you'd get
with the network boot uh you choose your
device so in this case it's a Raspberry
Pi 5 choose your operating system 99% of
the time you're going to choose this but
you can actually choose other systems
like you can choose retr Pi for gaming
or you can choose octopie for 3D
printing there's a lot of different
operating systems for Asberry Pi but
this one is the nicest one for getting
started with all kinds of projects on
the pie and then you choose your storage
which it's a 2506 6 GB micro SD card uh
you can also change up some settings on
the pi in the imager or you can change
them later on the pi in my case since I
use imager for my own images sometimes
I'm going to change the settings on here
so that I have my own password that I
set uh already applied and we could turn
on the wireless land here but we can
also do that later and you can also turn
on things like remote SSH access in here
and other options too
[Music]
so I got this flashed on my MacBook and
I'm going to plug it into the pyan and
like I said if you have ethernet that's
a little bit easier but otherwise you
need another computer to flash the micro
SD card so I plug that in and I'm going
to press the power button and the pi
turns on and we should see it uh boot up
over
here and the first time the pi boots up
on a fresh OS it actually reboots a
couple times because it has to expand to
fill the file system and and sometimes I
don't know why but it reboots like three
times this time it looks like it's going
to do it
twice and this is
pios uh the desktop this is running a
version of Linux but this is a kind of a
custom skin of Linux that Raspberry Pi
maintains so it has a built-in menu bar
with the the little menu with all the
options in it uh it has a built-in web
browser file manager and terminal and
then over here there's Wi-Fi settings
Bluetooth settings sound settings and uh
since this this this monitor has
speakers built in so it should also give
us sound and we'll test that uh but the
first thing I like to do when I set up a
new Pi with a new micro SD card is test
to make sure the SD card is fast enough
and Raspberry Pi actually includes this
Raspberry Pi di Diagnostics tool to help
with that so the SD card speed test
we'll check to make sure that this SD
card is fast enough to run posos well
and it's always a good idea to check
that because some micro SD cards are
made a lot better than others
and if you have one that's really slow
it's going to make your whole experience
using a Raspberry Pi not very fun and uh
it says it passed which means that it
meets Raspberry Pi standards but you can
look into the logs and see how fast it
is this one is uh actually a pretty good
card micro center does a good job with
their micro SD cards good job to them uh
the other thing that I want to make sure
is working is the sound so I'm going to
close this and uh we'll connect to a
Wi-Fi network here uh the first time we
do this it's going to ask me what
country
in there it is United States looks like
I have an IP address so I'm going to
check and see if YouTube works that's
also a good test for the performance of
a Raspberry Pi or other single board
computers some of them can't really run
YouTube at 1080P or at 720p so we're
going to go to
YouTube and I'll pick one of my videos
and we'll see if the sound comes
through
H H the pie hasn't updated its date and
time yet so the date was not setting
because the Wi-Fi here was a little bit
uh interesting I think they're blocking
some of the servers that it was going to
use so now we have the Internet working
finally and I'm going to go to my
YouTube channel and see if Sound Works
so it has
sound the sound is nothing to write home
about on this monitor so if you're
buying this monitor for its speakers
maybe buy some external speakers uh but
it does work so the the pi has a few
options for sound you can go through
HDMI you could use USB audio device
uh some hats provide even better sound
um but this video is not about seeing
how good it is at playing YouTube it's
about doing projects so the next thing
I'm going to do is plug this camera in
to do that I'm going to plug it into one
of these slots here however you want to
power off the pie before you do that cuz
you don't want to power up a camera
while it's on or risk shorting something
by putting the pin in the wrong place so
let me turn this off I'll plug it in and
we'll see if we can get the camera up on
here
so newer camera modules Raspberry Pi
started including the the cable for it
but if you have an older camera module
or Old Stock it has the wrong cable for
this so micr Center actually sells the
right cable for it which I have right
here and you'll have to do a a cable
swap on it and to do that you pull very
gently on this little black piece
here and slide this out you can see the
contacts are facing the same side as the
camera and I'll put that in the same way
with this orangish
cable and then push down on the black
part like so and now these these
contacts go into one of these two
ports facing towards the ports on this
side so the contacts face this way plug
it in
and we have the camera now I actually
got the 3D print back from uh the
back and here's part of it here's the
other
part and oh when I did that the P booted
up maybe unplug the P before you do this
because you shouldn't really power it on
while you're messing around with it too
much uh but I I had them print this case
in the back and we should fit right in
like this that sound
is that doesn't sound
wonderful but it's good enough so this
is my little uh GoPro stand GoPro tripod
and I'm going to face the camera towards
me right next to the pie and I'll screw
this
in all right the camera's all connected
and it's pointed at me so I'm going to
turn it
on and uh when it comes up there's a few
two different things you can do you can
just make sure the camera's working with
rasy Cam uh or you can also download
what I'm going to do a remote control
web service that you can run on your pi
and you can actually access it from any
other computer uh to see what's going on
now that the Pi's camera is plugged in I
want to make sure that it's actually
working so I'm going to say lid camera
still uh tt0 and that should open up a
window with the camera on it and it does
there I am hello and I think Auto Focus
works too yeah so there's my hand now
it's on me and uh we can focus on this
so the camera's working autofocus is
working and that's all good and I'm
going to close out of here by pressing
contrl C in this window and so now we
know the camera actually works I'm going
to set up a remote access service so I
can access it from other computers on
the network and for that I'm going to
search for uh Pi camera 2 web UI
and this is a project on GitHub made by
monkey made me so thank you very much
for making this an open source project
that we can use so I'm going to download
the zip file that has the code for this
in
it that
downloads onto the system here I can
expand this and that creates a python
application that will run in the
background and share this camera out
over the network so if I go back into
the terminal
and I follow the instructions here uh
and then I'm going to type in Python
app.py and that loads in some
configuration and then from any computer
on the same network I can go to this URL
and visit the pi camera and I can do
that from here of course cuz I'm on the
same network on this own on this pi and
this is the interface so you can see
it's a little blotchy that's because I
think by default it's trying to do 4K
which 4K is a lot to stream so I can
change that in the setting to go to
1080p which is a little easier to stream
and it switches the camera mode and now
you can see it's not quite real time
because it's actually synchronizing the
feed through the web UI and I can access
this from my iPad from my iPhone or
another computer and remote control it
and do time-lapses and things and this
is just one of thousands of different
projects you can do with a pie camera so
the other part of this build is the
enviral plus air quality monitor and it
uses the Pi's gpio pins there's actually
a lot of different ways you can
interface with these pins you can use
little Dupont connectors where you plug
them into each individual pin some
people make breakout boards where you
can plug things into breadboards on your
Raspberry Pi a lot of these hats will
plug straight into the top of the
pie however some hats also have things
that stick out of the bottom and that
can also touch things that are on the
pie like if you have a cooler or a big
heat sink
uh and the other problem is that this
has a temperature probe on it and if you
have the temperature probe right above
the hot CPU the temperature probe is
going to be a little bit off so one
thing that I do when I'm using these
kind of hats is I have an adapter I use
a right angle adapter and that will let
me put this hat off to the
side and it will still allow me to use
another hat on top of the pie if I want
to so I'm going to put this right here
stab my finger while I do it because
those are
sharp just plug it in on the
side right
there and that lets me have the the hat
off to the side you can also get
extension cables for this uh there's a
lot of different ways you can mount this
up uh this particular hat actually works
a little bit better with the Raspberry
Pi 0w or 0 W2 because it's the
footprints the same and that Pie Gets a
little bit cooler than than the pi5 but
it'll work with any PI that has gopo I'm
going to do that and then this hat also
has the ability to use a particulate
matter sensor so if you want to see uh
pm2.5 or pm5 or pm10 different
particulate sizes in the air this sensor
lets you do that and so if you're trying
to measure your outdoor air quality uh
or even indoor air quality so I have
this all plugged in I'm going to turn on
the p and hopefully this is the right
orientation otherwise
we could see some magic
smoke uh so far it hasn't exploded so
that's good and to get this to work you
have to download software from Pimon
which they provide on their website and
a lot of these projects will have you do
things in the terminal it's really a
good skill to have on the Raspberry Pi
to know how to use the terminal this
video is not going to get too deep into
that for many things it gives you the
commands to run so you can just run them
and it should work this is what I look
like when I spent an hour debugging
something on site that worked perfect ly
in the studio on the day of the shoot
you ran into some networking issues and
well it's just risky doing things live
which is why I redid the setup back in
the studio where I don't have any time
pressures I followed pyron's
instructions I installed the enviral
plus software and this time I actually
plugged the board in the right way and
look at that it works I can run the
example Python scripts they include to
do things like check on temperature see
the current light levels or even check
on particulate matter after I plug in an
external sensor it was reading zero when
I started it up but after I gave it a
little persuasion with this hacksmith
mini lightsaber it started seeing the
tiny particulates in my studio there's
also an LCD you can control so I ran a
few different tests to make sure that
worked all in all this little hat has a
ton of features crammed in and since
it's all managed through gpio I can
write my own custom software and do
whatever I want with it that is the
power of a Raspberry Pi but back to
North Carolina it was cool to meet a
couple of you there and Microcenter let
me give away the whole setup monitor
I'll just sorry about the audio here so
Joshua came up here right as we were
finishing up recording would you like to
take this uh kit with the monitor the
Raspberry Pi 5 the enviral plus camera
sure that would be amazing awesome have
you ever used a Raspberry Pi before I
have I've got a three and I was able to
get four before the E shortage so and
now we have a five thanks for coming to
microsof thank you right now I'm using a
pie at my studio to learn about radio
with RTL SDR at home I have one running
py hole to make my home internet better
Raspberry Pi has a bunch of tutorials to
get you started and of course subscribe
here to see all my Pi Adventures thanks
to Micro Center for sponsoring my trip
and thanks to especially to Blake from
shooting star media for helping me film
everything today until next time I'm
Jeff gurling