Did I damage my Raspberry Pi 4?

[MarcNBarrett]

I am trying to slowly update my electronics skills, which I have allowed to atrophy. I decided to start at the beginning, with something simple. Here is what I am trying to do:

https://www.sunfounder.com/learn/Super_ ... rrypi.html

I can't get it to work. When I connect the LED to +3.3V and GND from the GPIO connector, the LED lights up. But When I do exactly it says, and run the Python program, it doesn't work. The Python program runs, but the LED doesn't blink. It doesn't turn on at all.

I am using a Pi 4, and running Raspbian Buster.

I did notice that the text description talks about connecting to "GPIO 0", but the picture has the wire connected to GPIO 17. I carefully tapped the wire to the other GPIO pins while running the Python program, but the LED never blinked.

I was wondering if someone with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a breadboard could wire this up and tell me if I did something wrong? I suspect that this tutorial was created before the Pi 4 was produced, and maybe the Pi 4 is incompatible with it. If so, I might have to buy an old Pi 2 or Pi 3 just to do these old basic electronics tutorials.

[B.Goode]

Although the Raspberry Pi people might be happy about the benefits to their sales, there is no need to buy older hardware to perform such a basic task.

I recommend using the documentation from Raspberry Pi themselves here https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pro ... -computing which starts with the same Blinking LED project.

[Burngate]

There should be no need to downgrade to a Pi 3 or 2; the differences between those and the 4 should not affect this.

The Sunfounder page was written before the Pi 4 came out, but also is rather badly written; the C code uses the depricated WiringPi - that's where the designation GPIO0 comes from, for BCM 17 and physical pin 11.

It's also using Python 2, which has been superceded by Python 3

As B.Goode says, follow the RPI documentation - it's better written, and up-to-date.