BUILD What You'll Need To get started building the Raspberry Pi Vivarium Controller you'll need a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian OS.
Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi 3B is used for this project	Micro SD Card You'll need an 8Gb minimum micro SD card	Micro USB PS The Raspberry Pi standard power supply	HDMI Cable Temporarily, for initial OS install and configuration
Network Cable This can be switched later for WIFI	USB Keyboard Mouse is optional. Only needed for initial install	Computer Used to install Raspian files on SD card and SSH access	HDMI Display Any monitor or display with an HDMI input will work
Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi We're going to be installing Rasbian as a headless LAMP server. The server will be administered through an SSH connection from another computer.
STEP 1 First, download an older, compatabile, version of NOOBS installer package from the Raspberry PI archives. Latest and greates versions of NOOBS installer packages are here but will NOT currently work with this project.
STEP 2 While download, insert the SD card into your computer's SD card reader
STEP 3 Format your SD card to FAT
STEP 4 After download NOOBS, unzip the file, open it and then copy all the folders and files straight to the root of the formated SD card.
STEP 5 Unmount or safely remove the SD card from your computer and insert it into the Raspberry Pi.
STEP 6 Plug the HDMI monitor, USB keyboard and connect the Raspberry Pi to your network router with the CAT5e cable
STEP 7 Power up the Raspberry Pi by plugging in the micro USB power supply
STEP 8 If everything was done correctly you will see the Install Screen
STEP 9 Select "Install Rasbian" and press enter. Navigation can be done with only a keyboard or mouse.
STEP 10 When the install has finished, open a terminal and type sudo raspi-config Set the time and date and boot to command line, change the "pi" password and enable SSH Server. Select Finish and reboot
STEP 11 After booting up you will see the command prompt, take note of your Raspberry Pi's IP address login using "pi" and the default password "raspberry" or the password you choose earlier type sudo halt -p and press Enter in the command line to shutdown your Raspberry Pi
STEP 12 You may now disconnect the HDMI, remove the USB keyboard and/or mouse and login to your headless Raspberry Pi using SSH.
CONGRATULATIONS! You now have a Raspberry Pi with an operating system! Now we need to get the required software installed on your Raspberry Pi so we can start putting it to good use! Next we will install and configure the LAMP server and finish setup>