Setting up your Raspberry Pi without a monitor or Keyboard (headless setup)

Not like that fake headless setup that almost got me fired! This video I'll show you how to setup your Pi without the need to connect it to a keyboard or monitor.

A headless setup for a PI is setting it up without a graphical desktop interface, where you normally interact with it from a different computer. This is especially useful for applications that have their own web interfaces such as Octoprint or Node-Red.

Software: Raspbian Lite: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Etcher: https://etcher.io/

Putty: https://www.putty.org/

Angry Ip Scanner: http://angryip.org/download/#windows

Example wpa_supplicant.conf file: https://gist.github.com/witnessmenow/4313cb1d06115eeeec1e1fa1732f37e1

Guides: Enable File extensions: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-enable-hidden-file-extensions-in-Windows.html

Set Static Ip Address: https://www.modmypi.com/blog/how-to-give-your-raspberry-pi-a-static-ip-address-update

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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Kit

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