My first hand experience with Raspberry Pi 3

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Lot of people are exploring the Raspberry PI as the preferred automation device platform and I wanted to share my first impression on the setup and installation of the device.

Raspberry Pi 3 is the third generation Raspberry Pi from Element14 https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/

First thing you would need are a bunch of hardware, most of them are easily available on Amazon. I have listed my shopping list.


  1. Raspberry Pi 3B - Rs 2999/- link
  2. Sandisk SD Memory Card - Rs 689/- link
  3. Breadboard - Rs 80/- link
  4. LED and other components - Rs 450/- link
  5. Female to Female Jumper cable - Rs 138/- link
  6. Male to Female Jumper cable - Rs 118/- link
  7. Raspberry pi 3 Model B case - Rs 365/- link
  8. Power Supply - Rs 879/- link
  9. 8 Bit SMD LED Array with connector cables - Rs 99/- link
Total cost = Rs 5817/-

For operating system I have selected Raspbian which is the official supported OS for Raspberry Pi.

Task 1: Installing Raspbian to the SD memory card

I am using Macbook so the instructions below are related to that. For other OS refer to the installation manual on the Raspberry Pi website.

1) Download the OS image from the Raspberry Pi download page and unzip the archive.
2) Insert the SD card to Macbook SD slot.
3) Run the command below and note the disk number for the SD card
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.9 GB    disk2
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 Raspbian                31.9 GB    disk2s1

4) unmount the SD card by running the command below
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful

5) Install the image on the SD card
$ sudo dd bs=1m if=2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk2

 It will take a while to copy the OS image to SD card.

 Task 2: Stating your Raspberry Pi

 1) Insert the SD card into your Raspbery Pi
2) Attach a USB mouse, keyboard, and HDMI display


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