A buttkickin' reminder

I have already gone out of order for the schedule.  This week, rather than working on CAD, I started getting more parts and wanted to try them out.  Namely, my camera showed up and I wanted to see if it worked. I installed it onto my board and promptly realized, I do not have a functioning Raspberry Pi yet.  As I started looking things up I quickly realized that there is a lot to learn about a Raspberry Pi before one just starts to use it.  I did not realize I needed an SD card and operating system loaded before I can begin doing anything on it. I had no idea.  I started to download the OS (Rasbian) and after a minute or two Chrome informed me that I had only 12 hours left to finish downloading.  I guess I will do it tomorrow.

Raspbian link:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

This reminded me that there will be a million and one things going wrong with my project as there is with almost every mechatronics project. That reminder was a "buttkickin'" reminder. I should've known better than to think that I could make my project without HUGE bumps in the road.

Here's a picture of my updated RP.


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