S-Stem Scholar Monica Sanchez's Blog

I spent this week trying to fix our corrupted raspberry pi. First, I cleared the SD card and downloaded Raspbian onto the SD card. I also had to download 7zip, because a tutorial warned me that the windows extraction tool could cause the raspbian download to become corrupted. Then I had to download balena to flash the OS image onto the SD card. When I set up the raspberry pi, I realized that I did not have a keyboard to connect to it, so I had to download an app on my phone that would allow my phone to serve as a keyboard. Through the setup process, I tried to adjust the size of the screen to fit my tv size, but it became too large and I could not see important things on the sides such as the settings button and wifi buttons. Then I needed to be able to use arrow keys to change these settings, but my phone keyboard did not have these. Then I had to download a keyboard to my phone that would allow me to use arrow keys, alt, and ctrl keys. After this my phone would not connect to the ras...

This past week, I continued working on the tensorflow program. One of my group members was again trying to download Tensorflow onto our raspberry pi and it froze. We were not able to reboot it, so he said he would get a new SD card for us to try again. Our hardware issues have been the most difficult part so far. I did some research to see if it would be possible to download tensorflow onto my computer until we could get the raspberry pi working but I ran into similar issues. First, I had to download python onto my computer. I was trying to update python to make sure everything would work, but the I was confused about how to update the python pip or what that would mean, and they huge warnings of what could go wrong if I do this incorrectly. I also was unable to download tensorflow without those updates. We are meeting up tomorrow to work more on the raspberry pi, but if we are unable to get it working I will do more work to try to get it on my laptop. In the tutorial to install, it wa...