Warm up exercise without IoT!
What you will learn in this tutorial:
Preconditions
After connecting your Raspberry Pi:
you can follow this tutorial.
Electrically switch on/off a LED
In this exercise we are going to use RPi to power a LED
- Create a circuit like the one in the sketch
- The push button connects the LED anode to the 3.3V (through a 220Ohm resistor)

Raspberry Pi 1 Rev 1 Pinout reference here
Raspberry Pi 1 Rev 2 Pinout reference here
Raspberry Pi 2/3 Pinout reference here
Raspberry Pi zero w Pinout reference here
ACHIEVEMENT
- No kind of IoT is involved here:
- There is no remote control
- There is no device intelligence
- Let’s add some …