From the course: Computer Vision on the Raspberry Pi 4

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Setting up the environment

Setting up the environment

From the course: Computer Vision on the Raspberry Pi 4

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Setting up the environment

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- [Instructor] When you apply power to the Raspberry Pi and connect it to a display, the desktop should look similar to what you see here. This is the Raspberry Pi desktop environment. Along the top, you can see four icons. The leftmost icon opens the Applications menu. The next icon opens the Chromium web browser. The next icon opens the File Manager, and the last icon opens a terminal for entering commands. Before you start programming, you'll need to set up the environment to support computer vision. This means installing new packages and upgrading existing packages. To enter commands, click the rightmost icon to open a terminal. At this point, I'd like to provide some background on the operating system. Raspberry Pi OS is based on a Linux distribution called Debian. First released in 1993, Debian has become the basis of over 100 Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Kali Linux. One major reason for Debian's…

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