First, I finished setting up the Pi. I guess even after you have it connected you do a system update from the command line. My first sudo commands! Full system upgrade!
sudo apt-get update– go fetch the latest package information.sudo apt-get upgrade– And answer Y. Upgrades all the packages. This stage will take a while.sudo shutdown -r now– Reboot the machine.
I’d like my summer project to be around voice control. Going to spend a few hours looking at various projects and tutorials, from Alexa to Google.
This Alexa project looks promising, but I’m nowhere near being able to pull of something with this level of complexity.
Decided to get more basic – making a led turn on and off with a button.
After endless hours of trying to figure out why the pi was crashing and turning off as soon as I plugged it into the cobbler. Voltage testing, spinning things around, nothing worked. I even bent some pins in frustration. Finally, I tried an old breadboard I had laying around. Turns out that the breadboard that was send in my canakit was malfunctioning. I sent them a note on Amazon. Hope they expedite a new one to me. How annoying, to have wasted so much time of a shoddy board.
Video of light switch working!