by Elecrow

CrowPi All-in-One Kit

Quick Start Guide
Please read this instruction carefully before using this Kit and keep it for
future reference.

* Product pictures are for reference only

 Table of Contents

The CrowPi
About the CrowPi development board --------------------------------------------- 1-2

Enclosure and materials ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3

Hardware, sensors & GPIO usage-------------------------------------------------- 4-7

Safety notes and warnings ------------------------------------------------------------ 7-8

Initial Installation
CrowPi Pre-installation Requirements --------------------------------------------- 8-9
Downloading CrowPi image --------------------------------------------------------- 9-10

Burning the image into an Micro SD Card -------------------------------------- 10-11

Attaching the Raspberry Pi to the CrowPi board ----------------------------- 11-13

First time booting into the Operating System----------------------------------- 14-16

Summary
Summary and downloadable Lessons --------------------------------------------- 17
 The CrowPi
About the CrowPi development board

Thank you for supporting and purchasing our Elecrow CrowPi Board!

After months of dedicated working with our top R&D engineers and teams at Elecrow,
We are proudly presenting the “CrowPi” , a one of a kind Raspberry Pi Development
board, Which we truly believe you'll like just as we do.

The CrowPi Board was specially crafted for those who are passionate about STEM
education, Making, Computer Science, Robotics, teaching others or just learning out of
curiosity!

We've been working hard to make the CrowPi board as easy as possible so anyone
(literally) will be able to learn how to code and make incredible projects using the
Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer.

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 All-in-One Kit, CrowPi embeds regular materials for doing RPI projects

Sensors
LCD display
Switches
Button
Buzzer
Relay
Servo

+ Bread boards
Steper motor
IR receiver I2C
=
LCD
NFC moudle
LED matrix
4 Bite segment
CrowPi Development Board Button arry
Jumpers
...

With our board we are solving issues that have been in the wild for quite a while .. issues
like:
Being in an unproductive, messy environment - full of sensors, jumpers, bread boards and
cables. Our CrowPi solves it by offering an all-in-one board with on-board necessary
sensors for learning and rapid development.
Being unable to start using Raspberry Pi or Python Coding due to the complex, old
fashionable learning methods. We offer 21 lessons to get started with hands-on, detailed
examples that anyone can make.

The Raspberry CrowPi Kit can be used as laptop, gaming console, IOT project, studying,
making, prototyping and more! The imagination is the limit.

You can fit Raspberry Pi 3 into the CrowPi and extend support of sensors and modules
using the on-board breadboard.

We'd like to thank you again for supporting us and purchasing your first CrowPi Develop-
ment board. We can't wait to see what you'll make with it!

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Enclosure & Materials

Beautifully Designed for Everyday Life

Black Blue

CrowPi case is made of ABS plastic. The case edge is made of Aluminium alloy. The
monitor frame is made of arcylic.The fastener and hinge is made of iron. The handle is
made of plastic with metal coating. The development board is made of hasl lead free
FR-4. All the materials we use are non-toxic.

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Hardware, Sensors & GPIO Usage

Module List:
1. ABS Plastic Case 11. Sound Sensor 21. Relay
2. Camera 12. PIR Motion Sensor(LH1778) 22. Matrix Buttons
3. 7inch HDMI Touch Screen 13. Ultrasonic Sensor 23. Independent Buttons
4. Power Circuit 14. Servo Inteface 24. RFID Module(MFRC522)
5. LCD Module(MCP23008) 15. UART 25. Switches
6. Segment LED (HT16K33) 16. Step Motor Interface 26. Bread board
7. Vibration Motor 17. Tilt Sensor(SW-200D) 27. Raspberry Pi
8. Matrix LED(MAX7219) 18. IR Sensor 28. GPIO LED Indicator
9. Light sensor(BH1750) 19. Touch Sensor(TTP223) 29. Acrylic board
10. Buzzer 20. Temperature and Humidity 30. Microphone
Sensor (DH11)

Note: The CHIP name (module) of each sensor is inside the parenthesis

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Sensor Control Description

Sensor Name Control Pin Control Remarks

Method

BUZZER pin12/GPIO18 GPIO

OUTPUT

RELAY pin40/GPIO21 GPIO

OUTPUT

SOUND SENSOR pin18/GPIO24 GPIO INPUT

TILT SWITCH pin15/GPIO22 GPIO INPUT UX5-2 ON

VIBRATION MOTOR pin13/GPIO27 GPIO UX5-1 ON

OUTPUT

MOTION SENSOR pin16/GPIO23 GPIO

OUTPUT

TOUCH SENSOR pin11/GPIO17 GPIO INPUT

STEPPER MOTOR pin29/GPIO5 GPIO UX5-3 ON

pin31/GPIO6 OUTPUT UX5-4 ON
pin33/GPIO13 UX5-5 ON
pin35/GPIO19 UX5-6 ON

SERVO pin22/GPIO25 GPIO UX5-8 ON

OUTPUT

IR RECEIVER pin38/GPIO20 GPIO BOTH

TEMPERATURE&HUMIDITY pin7/GPIO4 GPIO INPUT

ULTRASONIC SENSOR ECHO:Pin32/GPIO12 GPIO INPUT

TRIG:Pin36/GPIO16

LIGHT SENSOR I2C I2C Address:0x5c

I2C LCD I2C I2C Address:0x21

4 BITE SEGMENT I2C I2C Address:0x70

LED MATRIX SPI SPI CS:

pin26/GPIO8

NFC MOUDLE SPI SPI CS:

pin24/GPIO7

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 INDEPENDENT BUTTON UP: pin37/GPIO26 GPIO INPUT UX1-5 ON
DOWN: pin33/GPIO13 UX1-6 ON
RIGHT: pin35/GPIO19 UX1-7 ON
LEFT:pin22/GPIO25

BUTTON ARRY Row1: pin13/GPIO27 GPIO INPUT UX1-1 ON

Row2: pin15/GPIO22 UX1-2 ON
Row3: pin29/GPIO5 UX1-3 ON
Row4: pin31/GPIO6 UX1-4 ON
Col1: pin22/GPIO25 UX1-5 ON
Col2: pin37/GPIO26 UX1-6 ON
Col3: pin35/GPIO19 UX1-7 ON
Col4: pin33/GPIO13 UX1-8 ON

Note : UX1 and UX5 are dialing switches, some sensors use the same GPIO, so if you
want to use those sensors, you have to turn on the right switch, for example: button-LEFT
using the same GPIO with the SERVO 2, if you want to use the SERVO, You can open
UX5-8, if you want to use button-LEFT , you can open UX1-8.

The CrowPi Safety Notes and warnings

Elecrow puts their customer's safety and security at the first priority, for the same reason
Elecrow doesn't use dangerous materials while manufacturing, and we follow extremely
strict QA tests to make sure the highest quality product will be shipped to our customers.
The CrowPi is a safe-to-use product with 5V input by power supply. Even though it's
completely safe to use it under normal circumstances there are a few rules that parents
should be aware of when buying this product for their children.

* Children should be under parent's supervision while using such a product, the product
contains small parts which might cause chocking to small children if swallowed.

* The relay module supplied inside our CrowPi board should ONLY be used within the
breadboard circuit designing, standing with 3v/5v power supply and SHOULD NOT
under any circumstances be used / connected or wired to a 220v/110v power plug like
light bulb, air conditioner etc …

* We care about your children's eyes and health just as you do, we do not recommend
using the device in dark room with no light for safety reasons and to protect the eyes
from the light of the LED’ s and LCD display.

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* The device was designed to be portable. It's possible to take it anywhere including
out-doors, school, train etc … The device should not be left out-doors without
supervision and / or in bad weather conditions such as rain and snow. The device is
neither water or dust proof.

Initial Installation

Pre-installation requirements

Before diving right into the CrowPi Initial installation guide we'd like to confirm you have
everything that is required in order to make the installation process as smooth as possible.
Please go through the following checklist and make sure you have it all
Note: These are not optional. They are all necessary for the installation process.

Official Elecrow CrowPi Board Raspberry Pi 3

Micro SD Card (Highly recommended

CrowPi Power Adapter Class 10, With high Read/Write speed)

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 Micro SD Adapter (To be able to Mouse + Keyboard (Can be
connect to your PC / Laptop) bluetooth as well as USB)

If you've confirmed you have the above items, You're ready to go!

Downloading the CrowPi Image

The Raspberry Pi uses an Linux-based operating system in order to function properly,

it uses a Micro-SD card to boot the operating system into a use-friendly environment to
enable customers like you to code and make amazing things.

In the following steps we'll go through downloading the Raspberry Pi Image that we're
going to use.

In order to make the whole process much easier and user-friendly, we've created an
image based on the stock Raspberry Pi Raspbian Image with all the necessary drivers
and installation that will help you get you started right away without hassle .

You can either use this method and burn our Image or use a stock Raspbian Image
from the Raspberry Pi website and then install all the drivers manually.

We highly recommend the first method. To clarify, We didn't modify or add any
thing unnecessary to the image, all the modifications are for the pure purpose of

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making our CrowPi working perfectly with the Raspbian OS. If you don't have any
advanced knowledge with compiling packages from source / getting around
Linux OS - We strongly recommend downloading our Image.

To download our Image, go to the following link on your favourite web browser:
https://www.elecrow.com/download/crowpi/crowpiV1.zip
And download the “.img” (image) file that contains the CrowPi Raspbian OS.

To download the stock Raspbian image, go to the following link on your favourite web
browser:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
And download the official Raspberry pi Raspbian OS or any other Raspberry compatible
image that works for you .

Burning the image into an Micro SD Card

After you've successfully downloaded the image, you should have a file called
“<file_name>.img” while “<file_name>” can depend on where you downloaded from,
either Elecrow website or the Raspberry Pi Official website.

The file extension should be “.img” or “.zip” if it’ s an “.zip” you should extract it to have a
file file extension “.img” .
In order to extract it,download the software “7zip” for Windows or “the unarchiver”
for Mac OSX:
Windows: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
Mac OSX: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
After you successfully confirmed you have the file, the next step will be burning the
image into your Micro SD card.

In order to burn the image, we'll need a tool called “Etcher” , Etcher is a graphical Micro
SD card writing tool that works on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

You can download Etcher for your Operation System here: https://etcher.io/

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After downloading and opening Etcher you should see something like this:

Follow the following steps:

1) Click the “Select Image” button and select your .img file which you downloaded from
either Elecrow Website or Raspbian official website

2) Click “Select Drive” button to select your Micro SD Card that you would like to burn the
image on (if Micro SD Card inserted, Etcher will do this step for you automatically)

3) Click Flash Button to flash the image, wait for it to finish and we're done!

Attaching the Raspberry Pi to the CrowPi Board

After finishing the burning process it's time to disconnect the micro SD card from the PC
/ laptop and plug it into the Raspberry Pi.

Note: Make sure to follow the following steps carefully, don't apply extra pressure or
strong force over the cable as you might damage the pins.

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After successfully plugging back in the Micro SD card, we'll need to lay the Raspberry Pi
over it's location on top of the CrowPi board.
Raspberry Pi 3

HDMI Port

USB 2.0

Note: First of all, we should have to plug the cable first, then mount screw . You
can put the unused cable under the board.

Afterwards, we'll need to plug it in by using “rainbow” (flat) cable. We'll first carefully plug
it into the Raspberry pi making sure it covers the exact pins of the raspberry pi and very
importantly doing it carefully not to damage the Raspberry Pi pins.
Raspberry Pi 3

The second step will be plugging the “rainbow” cable into the CrowPi board.
We'll take the other end of the “rainbow” cable and carefully plug it directly into the board
making sure it covers all the pins and placed at the right spots.

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And … We are done! Well … almost!
To make sure that the Raspberry Pi won't move during your rapid development we will
need to attach it using screws, the Raspberry Pi contains screws to be attached to the
CrowPi board, take a look at the following picture for reference:

Make sure to attach them tightly for your Raspberry Pi safety.

Last thing will be to plug the CrowPi board into power supply, it's highly recommended
to use the power supply we supply with the board, but also any other power supply like
micro-USB / Battery will work as well.

Power Port

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 USB Powered-Easy
and Convenient

First time booting into the Operating System

After We've prepared everything and plugged the power on, if the Raspberry Pi doesn't
turn on by itself - it means the power button isn't pressed.

Power Button

After powering on the board by clicking on the power button, the Raspberry Pi should
load the operating system automatically. Give it few seconds up to one minute to load
until you'll see the desktop environment and you'll be ready to go

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Congratulations!
You've officially got your CrowPi up and running.
You might have realized that you have no way to control the desktop environment
except for the 7 inch touch screen … let's get it solved by plugging in a keyboard and
external mouse.

We can do it by simply plugging in a USB keyboard and USB mouse

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Or connect Bluetooth keyboard and mouse using the touch screen with the bluetooth
configuration

Last thing will be connecting to a local wifi access point or using Ethernet cable if that
works better for you (both are optional)

WiFi

Ethernet cable

After this, you should have fully functional CrowPi laptop that you can do everything
you want to with it!

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 Summary
What should you do next?

Now, when the initial installation is complete - you're ready to go!

We've prepared 21 lessons for you to get started with the CrowPi.
The lessons will get you started using Python 2.7 and modules usages including all
on-board sensors and creating your own first circuit using the breadboard.

Download the lessons PDF Here:

https://www.elecrow.com/download/CrowPi-lessons.pdf

Lesson 1 - Using the Buzzer for alert sound or notification.

Lesson 2 - Get input from button to control the Buzzer.
Lesson 3 - How Relay works and how to control it.
Lesson 4 - Send vibration signal to the vibration sensor.
Lesson 5 - Detect sound using the sound sensor.
Lesson 6 - Detect low or bright light using the Light sensor.
Lesson 7 - Detect room temperature and humidity using the DHT11 sensor.
Lesson 8 - Detect motion using the motion sensor.
Lesson 9 - Getting distance information using the Ultrasonic sensor.
Lesson 10 - Controlling the LCD Display.
Lesson 11 - Read / Write RFID card using the RFID module.
Lesson 12 - Using the step motor and making step movements.
Lesson 13 - Controlling servos motors using the servo interfaces.
Lesson 14 - Controlling the 8x8 Matrix LED.
Lesson 15 - Controlling the 7 Segment Display.
Lesson 16 - Detecting touch using the Touch Sensor.
Lesson 17 - Detecting tilt using the Tilt Sensor.
Lesson 18 - Using and controlling the Button Matrix.
Lesson 19 - Using and controlling the IR sensor
Lesson 20 - Making your own circuit board using the Bread Board
Lesson 21 - Using the CrowPi Camera

If you encounter any issues or have any question regarding the CrowPi, don't hesitate
to ask, we are always here for you. info@elecrow.com

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* CrowPi is a new brand by Elecrow