Today, Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with DIY Electronics. The hugely popular board, intended to encourage students to tinker with electronics, has been used by hackers in simple projects like electronic picture frames as well as complex projects like the Bitcoin Mining Array. With the advent of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, Raspberry Pi 2 arrived at the right time with a more powerful processor and features.
Microsoft also acknowledged the importance of these small devices for the first time and released a dedicated version of Windows for them. Windows 10 IoT preview is released to motivate developers to create or port their Windows apps to it. Let’s see how to install Windows 10 IoT on your Raspberry Pi 2.
Hot Tip: To discover many cool projects for Raspberry Pi, visit Hackaday.com’s Raspberry Pi 2 page.
What you need
- You must have a physical PC running the Windows 10 Insider preview. Installing on a VM and Windows 8 won’t work.
- The phone charger provides at least 1 A. Your normal smartphone charger with micro USB will work.
- Micro SD card with at least 8 GB capacity and card reader. If you’re using your phone’s card, be sure to back up any data on it as the card will be erased in the process.
- An Ethernet cable.
- HDMI cable to connect to an external display.
- Create a Microsoft Account by visiting their official sign-up page, if you haven’t already.
Download Windows 10 IoT Preview
Step 1: To get the Windows 10 IoT preview, you need to register on Microsoft Connect. Visit this page and sign in with your Microsoft account. On the next page click Continue.
Step 2: Enter the profile name of your choice, accept the agreement and click Continue.
Step 3: Finally, you have to go through two surveys, these are just the agreements that you need to accept to get access to the preview images.
Step 4: Visit this page and click the button Download link. Alternatively you can also use Microsoft’s FTM (File Transfer Manager) to download it by clicking the blue button Download button.
Step 5: Once the file is downloaded, open it and copy flash.ffu file to your C: drive. Insert your SD card into the reader and connect the reader to your PC.
Install Windows 10 IoT
Step 1: Open start menu, search for cmd. Command prompt will appear at the top, right click on it and select Run as administrator.
Step 2: In the command prompt, type disc part. Then type disc list, will list all the drives connected to your PC. The connected SD card will show up as a disk, which you can determine from the capacity. Remember the Disc Number corresponding to the SD card.
Double check to make sure that the disk number corresponds to the SD card and not to any other drive. finally type exit to leave DISKPART. Don’t close the cmd window.
Step 3: Now we need to navigate to the C:\ drive, where we copied the image file in the previous step. To do it like that CDC:\ and press enter. To copy the image to the SD card, paste the following:
dism.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:flash.ffu /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDriveX /SkipPlatformCheck
In the above code, replace X IN PhysicsDriveX with the Disk number you found in step 2. Then press enter.
Step 4: Once the file is copied, insert the SD card into your Raspberry Pi, connect the HDMI, Ethernet and USB cables. It will start to boot automatically once you connect the USB cable. The Windows logo will be displayed and Windows will do some behind-the-scenes setup. It may take a few minutes.
Finally, it will show the following screen, which means you have successfully installed Windows 10 IoT! Sadly, you may not be able to do more than stare at it, unless you have developer superpowers. If you know Powershell and are interested in developing Windows applications, follow this document to control your board through Powershell.
Conclusion
This release means quite a bit for developers, but in the future, we’ll definitely see an official version for IoT. Plus, as more developers join in and do-it-yourselfers start experimenting, we’ll see some great apps and cool projects. If you have any interesting Pi projects or additional thoughts, feel free to share in the comments.
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