Raspberry Pi Bootcamp : For the Beginner

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Intro Video

Lecture 2: What is a Raspberry Pi?

Lecture 3: Overview of the Raspberry Pi 4

Lecture 4: Hardware needed for the course

Chapter 2: Setting up your Raspberry Pi

Lecture 1: Understanding SD Cards

Lecture 2: Download and install Etcher

Lecture 3: UPDATE : Download and Install the Raspberry Pi Imager for Flashing your SD Card

Lecture 4: Downloading Raspbian

Lecture 5: Flashing our SD Card with Etcher

Lecture 6: UPDATE : Using the Raspberry Pi Imager to install Raspberry Pi OS

Lecture 7: Connecting the components

Chapter 3: Raspbian setup and configuration

Lecture 1: First Boot Up

Lecture 2: Connecting to a network and configuring preferences

Lecture 3: Getting familiar with Raspbian

Chapter 4: Connecting remotely to your Raspberry Pi

Lecture 1: Understanding how remote connections can occur

Lecture 2: Secure Shell (SSH)

Lecture 3: Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

Chapter 5: Using GPIO (General Purpose Input Output) pins

Lecture 1: Introduction to GPIO pins

Lecture 2: Powering an LED from your GPIO pins

Chapter 6: Programmatically controlling GPIO pins

Lecture 1: Wiring change in our circuit

Lecture 2: Getting the project resources

Lecture 3: Running the program to turn our LED on

Lecture 4: Running the program to blink our LED

Chapter 7: Installing a Web Server

Lecture 1: Install and setup Apache

Lecture 2: Install and setup PHP

Chapter 8: Controlling Circuits from a Web Page

Lecture 1: Giving the Apache user advanced privileges

Lecture 2: Turning our LED on from a Web Page

Lecture 3: Python / PHP code review for LED on/off control

Lecture 4: Blinking our LED from Web Page Controls

Lecture 5: Python / PHP code review for LED blink control

Chapter 9: Set up your own Gaming System using the Raspberry Pi

Lecture 1: Introduction to RetroPie

Lecture 2: Components needed

Lecture 3: Downloading RetroPie and Flashing our SD Card

Lecture 4: Setup Components

Lecture 5: Setting up the Gamepad or Controller

Lecture 6: Configuring RetroPie

Lecture 7: Understanding the process of getting ROMS and how they need to be setup

Lecture 8: Preparing and Installing ROMs

Lecture 9: Play Games!

Chapter 10: Creating a Google Home Clone

Lecture 1: Hardware components that will be needed

Lecture 2: What you should know about preparing our SD card for the project

Lecture 3: Preparing our SD card

Lecture 4: Connecting our components

Lecture 5: Software configuration

Lecture 6: Doing the audio and microphone check

Lecture 7: Troubleshooting Audio Issues

Lecture 8: Setup in the Google Cloud Console

Lecture 9: Saving Credentials to the Raspberry Pi

Lecture 10: Connecting our push button switch

Lecture 11: Try it out! Ask it anything!

Chapter 11: Closing

Lecture 1: Closing Comments

Chapter 12: Additional Content

Lecture 1: Understanding the different models of the Raspberry Pi

Lecture 2: How to provide external power for your remote Raspberry Pi projects

Lecture 3: Understanding the difference between Arduino and Raspberry Pi

Lecture 4: Setup your Raspberry Pi in Headless Mode – No extra monitor, keyboard or mouse

Lecture 5: Want to go deeper with Raspberry Pi?

Chapter 13: Bonus

Lecture 1: Want to learn more?