Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Electronic Projects with Python, Scratch, and Linux - Softcover

Richardson, Matt; Wallace, Shawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457186128 ISBN 13: 9781457186127

Publisher: Maker Media, Inc, 2014

Synopsis

What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, the affordable computer the size of a credit card? All sorts of things! If you're learning how to program--or looking to build new electronic projects, this hands-on guide will show you just how valuable this flexible little platform can be.

Updated to include coverage of the Raspberry Pi Model B+, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi takes you step-by-step through many fun and educational possibilities. Take advantage of several preloaded programming languages. Use the Raspberry Pi with Arduino. Create Internet-connected projects. Play with multimedia. With Raspberry Pi, you can do all of this and more.

In Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, you’ll:

• Get acquainted with hardware features on the Pi's board
• Learn enough Linux to move around the operating system
• Start programming in Python and Scratch
• Draw graphics, play sounds, and handle mouse events with Pygame
• Use the Pi's input and output pins to do some hardware hacking
• Discover how Arduino and the Raspberry Pi can work together
• Create your own Pi-based web server with Python
• Work with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module and USB webcams

About this title

About the Author

Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist and video producer. He's a contributor to MAKE magazine and Makezine.com. Matt is also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera, a camera which outputs a text description of a scene instead of a photo. He also created The Enough Already, a DIY celebrity-silencing device. Matt's work has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, New York Magazine and has also been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art and at the Santorini Bienniele. He is currently a Master's candidate at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Shawn Wallace is an editor at O'Reilly and lives in Providence, RI. He is also a member of the Fluxama artist collective responsible for new iOS musical instruments such as Noisemusick and Doctor Om. He designed open hardware kits at Modern Device and taught the Fab Academy at the Providence Fab Lab. For years he was the managing director of the AS220 art space and is a cofounder of the SMT Computing Society

Edition details

• Publisher: Maker Media, Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457186128
• ISBN 13: 9781457186127
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200