This project was actually one of the hardest i’ve done. Setting up the raspbian operating system was very easy because we did most of the work in class. I really didn’t want to fit into the “So if you are able to successfully get an operating system on the pi and run a few commands? Nice. Take some pictures. Write about how hard/easy it was. You get a B.” category so i tried to do something more than what was asked. I came up with the idea of using the pi as a firestick for my tv. Of course it wasn’t exactly like the fire stick but I found this video on youtube and it didn’t look too hard to do and it seemed very useful.
video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFXGf5usjw
Although I was right about plex being very useful, I was terribly, terribly wrong about it being easy. First of all, I went to the ihub to do this project and i honestly think that Ren felt bad for me because I didn’t even know how to connect it to the monitor. Ren was actually very helpful with the setup process because he gave me the hdmi cord, the charger, keyboard, and mouse ! Once I got the operating system up, I thought I was good to go until I had to start typing commands in the computer. This was very annoying because I got pretty far and then my commands stopped working. I attached pictures of what I attempted below .
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