Creative Projects with Raspberry Pi: Build gadgets, cameras, tools, games and more with this guide to Raspberry Pi: Foreword by David Braben OBE FREng co-founder of Raspberry Pi Foundation - Softcover

Kearney, Kirsten; Freeman, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784723053 ISBN 13: 9781784723057

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, 2017

Synopsis

Foreword by the co-founder of Raspberry Pi Foundation

Discover the ultimate possibilities of Raspberry Pi with this friendly and accessible book, written by two experts in tech and computer games. With no complicated language and no coding skills required, this book gets straight to the fun and inspiring things you can do with your Raspberry Pi.

• Step-by-step instructions
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• Tips from master Pi engineers
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• Features inspiring projects in full colour
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• Explore the best inventions ever made using Raspberry Pi
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• Create anything you can think of, from video games and robots to art
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• Learn to perform scientific experiments
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Projects sourced from the greatest makers in the world are accompanied by 'inspired-by' projects that even a novice could make.

Every project includes a web link to pick up extra apps and coding.

About this title

About the Author

Kirsten Kearney has been a games journalist for a decade. She began her career as a researcher and producer in broadcasting at the BBC. She is the author of an eBook for Gameleon on freelance games journalism and was section editor for Guinness World Records: Gamers Edition for two years. Kirsten owns and runs the games media website www.ready-up.net, which has been nominated for a Games Media award four years running.

Having written a variety of in-depth pieces on various game genres and specific series and franchises over the last 10 years, Kirsten has a particular interest in Minecraft. She has given radio interviews on the subject and runs a children's Minecraft server whose world is impressive enough to have had a fly-through of it screened in a cinema.

From the Back Cover

Discover dozens of the most remarkable, ingenious ways to use Raspberry Pi - the computer that has put the fun back into computer programming. Raspberry Pi is the most versatile and affordable computer ever made - and you don't even need any coding skills to use it. Showing the many different ways to use Raspberry Pi, the projects in this book will appeal to creatives from all walks of life.

The Raspberry Pi was designed expressly to make computer programming fun and enjoyable. The size of a credit card, the little circuit board computer is cheap and simple enough for anyone, anywhere in the world, to learn how to create computer programs easily. Learn step by step how to complete simple projects with your Raspberry Pi and explore the most innovative inventions ever made with the little computer that could. These amazing 'Pideas' show how easy it is to develop fantastic homebrew electronics. With tips from master Pi engineers you can create anything you can think of, from your own video games and robots to expressing yourself artistically, and even performing scientific experiments.

25 of these projects are sourced from the greatest makers in the world, and are designed to showcase the ultimate possibilities with Pi. These are accompanied by 10 'inspired-by' projects that even a novice could make, including full step-by-step building instructions. Every project includes a web link to pick up extra apps and coding to make the projects even easier.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784723053
• ISBN 13: 9781784723057
• Binding: Flexibound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224