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What can a raspberry pi do? How can a pure beginner play with raspberry pi 5? Discover more below.
 
The journey is recorded using the “day” as the unit. It doesn’t strictly mean 24 hours and day(x) and day(x+1) don’t refer to two continuous days. The “day” basically equal to each time I played. Usually I play with it one day in a week and around 1 hour each time.

Day5

I started the project https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-super-slim-smart-mirror/, basically a dashboard. The official doc didn’t work for me for two issues: 1. I cannot install npm, 2. the node version doesn’t satisfy the MagicMirror’s requirement.
For Issue 1, I received error messages like
To solve it, I did
For Issue 2, I received error messages including
To solve issue 2, I did `setup_22` instead of `setup_18` given by the official doc:
After that, the display has shown the dashboard. Very nice.
🗒️ Homework: choose/implement the modules I want to use on my dashboard: DB information, Germany holidays. There are a lot of existing modules in https://forum.magicmirror.builders/.

Day4

I surfed some tutorials on raspberry pi. The super-slim smart mirror project impressed me a lot. I want to do this!
I gave it a detailed look. Skipping the hardware preparation steps (which I didn’t want to have a look in a while), a link named as “kiosk mode” attracted my attention. I jumped into it. Wow! I could boot my raspberry pi via SSH, no need for a display or the missing microHDMI cable!
I took out the dusted raspberry pi again, rewrote a 32-bit OS imager. Yes! This time, I could SSH into the raspberry pi. Very big step. Great.
🗒️ Homework: do a very easy project to feel my sweet raspberry pi.

Day3

Important: the basic requirement for the first step: a microSD card for Raspberry pi and an SD card adapter for the laptop who will write the imager to the microSD card. Of course, a raspberry pi and a laptop are also required.
 
This time, I thought finally I have every required pieces and became excited again to play with my Raspberry pi. I followed a video guide YouTubeYouTubeRaspberry Pi 5 Setup: Getting Started Guide (Step By Step).
The step writing to the storage worked well. However, this video didn’t mention “Enable SSH”. I just followed it until the step connected the Raspberry pi with a display. Wow, I needed another microHDMI cable for the connection! Unfortunately, I missed this piece again.
🗒️ Homework: take a rest from this missing hardware trauma.

Day2

I received my SD card and kept going following the official guide. At the exact next step: Install an operating system, wwww, I didn’t have any adapter to insert the SD card into my laptop to write the imager.
🗒️ Homework: I ordered a SD card adapter because my laptop which I gonna use to write the image has a normal sized SD card slot.

Day1

I installed the raspberry pi in the official case and visited the official get-started website with excitement.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any SD card.
🗒️ Homework: I ordered a SanDisk Ultra Plus 64GB A1 microSD card online. 32GB should be enough.