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RASPBERRY PI TIPS AND TRICKS

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As you learned in Chapter 14, the Raspberry Pi is a full computer with an operating system, which means it requires some setup procedures before you can start using it. I covered basic setup in that project, but here are some additional tips and tricks to prepare the Pi for your projects.

Setting Up Wi-Fi

In Chapter 14, I recommended using the built-in WiFi Config utility to set up Wi-Fi on your Raspberry Pi. However, there’s a quicker way to do the same thing using the command line. First, enter the following in the terminal to bring up the configuration file in the nano editor:

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ...

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