How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi for the First Time .

Raspberry Pi is a small computer . To use this embedded board as a system like any other computer system we will need below hardware:

Desktop to provide the GUI ( graphical user interface ) to interact with the system .
Mouse as a pointing device to point and interact with the applications .
Keyboard to write a code to control different general purpose GPIOs and performing many other general purpose day to day task .
Memory card which will act as a computer hard drive .

As we discussed , Raspberry is a small computer board . And for any computer , system software i.e. operating system like windows , Linux etc. is required to run the different day to day task and interacting with the computer system . Similarly , to interact with raspberry pi hardware board we need to install Linux based operating system as explained below .

1. Launch Raspberry Pi Imager on your PC. You can download Raspberry Pi Imager if you don’t have it already.