Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects
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The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
It can be described as a small, cheap, hackable, education orientated. What it is not is a plug and play device. It is not a consumer device, and depending on what you intend to do with your Raspberry Pi you will need to make a number of decisions about peripherals and software to get you up and running. But we may be getting ahead of ourselves, as the first thing we have to do is to acquire a Raspberry Pi, if you have not already purchased one. The low price tag of £25 - $35 is an important part of the attraction and the success story of Raspberry Pi.
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace is a must have book. It describes in some detail what can you do with the Raspberry Pi, a $35 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.
This book 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.
Get acquainted with hardware features on the Pi's board.
Learn enough Linux to move around the operating system Pick up the basics of Python and Scratch--and start programming Draw graphics, play sounds, and handle mouse events with the Pygame framewor.
Use the Pi's input and output pins to do some hardware hacking.
Discover how Arduino and the Raspberry Pi complement each other Integrate USB webcams and other peripherals into your projects
Create your own Pi-based web server with Python Matt Richardson's and Shawn Wallace's : Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects describes what will you get when you take your Raspberry Pi out of the box. It educates you on everything that is on the board. Once you know where everything is on the board you will next learn about what the proper peripherals to use with your Raspberry Pi . There are a number of pre packaged starter kits that have well vetted parts lists, with a few caveats that the book highlight for you. IT highlights that the power supply is the most important peripheral to get right and what you will need. A cell phone charger will not suffice, even if it has the correct connector.
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects will guide you through the steps to boot up your Raspberry Pi for the first time, how to configure the device using the Raspi-config tool menu, as chances are your Raspberry Pi will not work exactly the way you want it to right out of the box. Matt Richardson's and Shawn Wallace's: latest book Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects walks you through the options you have for ways to connect to the Internet and will give you enough of the grasp of Linux to mover around the operating system and much, much more.
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Matt Richardson's and Shawn Wallace's : Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Make Projects describes in some detail what can you do with the Raspberry Pi, a $35 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. http://amzn.to/1fdF3HM
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