Air Quality Meter - Step 2: the Pi

There are a lot of guides and some top notch documentation on getting start with a Raspberry Pi. Here are the parts I used to get the Pi set up, and the steps that I followed.

All of the links I provided are important and really thorough. Follow them carefully!

requirements:

• Pi Zero W
• Micro SD card (8gb)
• SD Card reader
• Set of headers
• soldering iron
• solder
• mini hdmi adapter
• micro usb to usb adapter
• keyboard
• display
• hdmi cable

Steps:

• Solder the headers on
• Download OS https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/ (noobs)
• Follow directions to flash https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md
• Boot and login (user is pi, password is raspberry)
• Change password for pi user
• add new user (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/users.md)
  • give yourself sudo permissions
  • add file to sudoers.d
• run sudo raspi-config
  • Set up network options
  • (optional) set up boot options to boot to desktop
  • Interfacing Options
    • Enable SSH, SPI, I2C
• reboot and login as your new user
• run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
• SSH in from your computer
• sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• sudo apt-get install -y python-smbus sudo apt-get install -y i2c-tools https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-4-gpio-setup/configuring-i2c

This final step on the Adafruit documentation for the ic2 setup is necessary for the next step, which is setting up the actual sensor.