Sunfounder Smart Video Car Kit For Raspberry Pi Installation On Mac
If you followed the guide in my on how to assemble and get the Sunfounder Video Car running, you should at this stage have a fully-built Raspberry Pi-powered robot, but no means to program it as of yet. In order to remedy that, this post will detail the setup of the Pi’s SD card, covering OS installation, some network configuration tips and the installation of a light version of the Robot Operating System. Installing Raspbian First, we need to get an OS up and running on the Raspberry Pi. Most sources you’ll find on the Internet (and also the car’s manufacturer, Sunfounder) will recommend Raspbian, a Pi-specific distribution of Linux, based on Debian. Indeed, its popularity and optimization for the Raspberry Pi make it a very good OS choice, with ample support and application compatibility.
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You can choose to install Raspbian either by: • Downloading the install manager and choosing Raspbian as OS to be installed. This option is quick and best for beginners.
It will get you the latest stable Raspbian version. • Downloading a directly and using software like Win32 Disk Imager (Windows) or the dd command (Linux).
This option gives more flexibility in case you want to install a specific Raspbian version for compatibility reasons. A word of caution here is that not all Raspbian versions seem to work on all Pis. I personally could not get Raspbian Wheezy working on the Pi 3, so do be mindful of the age difference between your hardware and the OS. My Pis use Raspbian Jessie, the latest Raspbian version at the time of this post. After the installation, the Pi will boot into Raspbian and log you in automatically as user “ pi“, logged into the host “ raspberrypi“, with password “ raspberry“. 
Configuring SSH and Connection to a Wireless Network At this stage, you may want to equip the Pi with some peripherals and configure it directly (via mouse, monitor and keyboard) or – if the Pi is Ethernet-connected or otherwise can connect to a wireless network on boot and has SSH enabled by default – ssh into it from another machine and configure it “headlessly”. In the latter case, you’ll want to make sure your ssh computer is on the same network as the Pi and use a tool such as nmap to discover the Pi’s IP address. You can also use a VNC application such as the in Ubuntu to access the Pi’s graphical interface remotely. Once you’re in and have a terminal open, use the command: $ sudo raspi-config This will bring up a from which you should first of all expand the filesystem (note: if you used NOOBS to install Raspbian, your system is already expanded) and then enable SSH and I2C (from the “Advanced Options”). The latter two settings will allow your Pi to be accessed from different machines and allow for the rest of the electronic components to be controlled through the Pi, respectively.
Following this, you should now make sure you can connect to the Internet, to download and install needed software. Check your network interfaces and if they’re connected to any network by running: $ ifconfig If an IP address is listed next to any of your network interfaces (apart from the local loopback interface, which will always have IP 127.0.0.1), that interface is currently connected. Andreea Luțac is a software engineer and recent graduate of the University of Glasgow. She is currently an intern in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow conducting research that investigates the scalability and reliability limitations of the Robot Operating System (ROS). This research is based on her final year undergraduate project that experimentally compared ROS and Erlang scalability and reliability.