Video essential accessories and setting up the hardware. In this video, we will take a look at the essential accessories we will need and why we need them for the Raspberry Pi four. Finally, we will learn to set up the hardware for boot up. The Raspberry Pi four has been designed with a user in mind. It is quick and easy to set up and use. Like any computer.

It relies on various external components called peripherals for input and output of the system. Now, we will take a look at some essential accessories you will need to work with the Raspberry Pi. First and foremost, we need to provide the pifo with clean and reliable power. For that you will need a five volt power supply rated at three amperes with a USB type C connector. If your power supply doesn't have a USB type C connector, you can always use an adapter are a separate cable. If you are buying a cable, make sure that it is not earmarked as explained in the last video.

Don't come crying to me if you burn your pie for because you use a cheap power supply. It's always a good idea to buy a good branded power supply or better you can buy the official Raspberry Pi for supply. The next most important accessory you need to buy is the micro SD card. This is the storage place of your PI where the OS and all your files reside. See, here's the thing, usually in flash memory like cheap microSD cards are not meant for frequent writes and reads. They are intended for mass storage for media and not for NOLS.

So you need to be very careful not to go cheap on this. There are two aspects that you have to consider when buying a micro SD card for the PI for one is this Rates pace and the other is the read and write speed. Even though many sites claim that you can install the OS on a GB and 16 GB SD cards, we have found that but real life use, you will need a minimum of 16 gb. We recommend a 32 gb one for people who are very serious about the pie. Now let's look at the next critical criteria. When selecting the microSD card.

It doesn't matter even if you have a 256 gb micro SD if it's slow, your user experience will suffer and you will get annoyed. Does we recommend you to buy the fastest micro SD card available. This is known as class 10 micro SD card. Therefore, we advise you to buy a 32 gb class 10 micro SD card. Next, you will need a pair of micro HDMI to HDMI cables so that you can connect the pipes To upload two displays at the same time, please make sure that you buy a macro HDMI and not a mini HDMI cable. If you have a monitor without an HDMI input socket, you will also need to buy micro HDMI to VGA converter.

For some odd reason, if you'll need to connect a very old TV for maybe like a retro gaming arcade project, you will need a micro HDMI to RCA composite converter. Obviously, like any computer, you will need a keyboard and a mouse. The keyboard and mouse can be connected directly to the USB ports of the PI. In the next section, I will teach you how to work with the Raspberry Pi remotely from your laptop without a display a keyboard or a mouse. See, if you have to connect a keyboard and a mouse. Please make sure you connected to the USB two phones.

Reports the faster USB 3.0 port can be left free to connect other high data throughput devices like an SSD. The final essential accessory you will need is a Raspberry Pi four case with a fan and heat sinks. Although the PI foundation claims that the PI four is safe to use without a case, provided that you don't place it on a metal surface, or work with wet hands, we don't want to take any chances, right. Also, we've seen the PI for hated by a lot when working with quite a load. We've seen temperatures of the CPU rise well about 85 degrees Celsius or 180 degree Fahrenheit without any cooling. If you want to know more about what the community thinks about this toasty situation, with a pifo you can check out the links in the resources section does taking into consideration all these things factors, we highly recommend you to buy a case heatsink and fan combo for the pifo C, a heatsink and a case where sufficient for previous Raspberry Pi models, but for the PI four, especially with its bump in performance needs an active cooling solution, aka fans.

In our case, we have bought a transparent acrylic case with fans and heatsink for the pifo. Usually this combo comes with a pair of hate sings. The bigger heatsink should go about the processor and the smaller one should go about a RAM chip. If your combo has an extra heat sink, you may fix it on the USB Controller chip. Please note that you should never apply a heatsink on the radio chip with a silver enclosure. This can interfere with wireless communication.

Finally, after assembling the case, mount the fan and wire it up to the GPIO pins. provide power. Please refer to the assembling instructions given for your case and cooling system combo as This differs from product to product. Now let's look at how to correctly set up the hardware. Whenever we boot up the Raspberry Pi four please follow the same order of interfacing whenever you have to set up the Raspberry Pi four from scratch, although you don't have to do in the sequence. Following this will ensure that your Raspberry Pi four lives for a long time and you always won't get corrupted easily.

Our normal tendency whenever we get something electronic is to power it. We recommend not to do this with a pifo first and foremost, insert the macro SD card where the always pre installed in the pie for we will cover the OS installation in the next section. The second step is to Connect the input peripherals to your PI form. This can be your LAN cable, keyboard, mouse, or even a PI camera on the CSA connector. The third step is to connect any output peripherals like displays speaker or even a PI display on the DSi connector. The fourth and final step is to connect the power.

Remember that the pifo has no power on a reset button on the board. So you have to be careful not to yank in or out the power cable without following the proper boot up or shutdown procedure. Here we have shown the proper procedure. In the next section, we will explain the proper shutdown procedure as it got to deal with the software side of things. Thus, some of the hardware precautions you have to take boils down to these points. Always keep them in mind.

It's better you write it down and stick it out. your workbench. plug in the power last shutdown before removing the power supply, shut down and power of before adding any new hardware. Watch out for static electricity. Let your pie breathe. If you have any further questions regarding the pifo you may visit the FAQ link provided in the resources section.

Furthermore, we strongly recommend that you watch this YouTube video where the PI engineers are interviewed. Please check the pinned comment on that video to get timestamps on different topics they discuss. It's an amusing and informative video summary. In this video, we have covered the following topics. What are essential accessories needed, why we need this accessories and how to correctly set up the hardware first boat section summary introduction to the course. getting acquainted with raspberry pi, the credit card sized computer part one, in depth insights into the hardware features of the Raspberry Pi four Model B.

Part Two, in depth insights into the hardware features of the Raspberry Pi four model be essential accessories and setting up the hardware. In the next section, we will learn to correctly set up the software and work with the Raspberry Pi for OS called Raspbian Buster