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Raspberry Pi By Example

By : Arush Kakkar
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Raspberry Pi By Example

By: Arush Kakkar

Overview of this book

Want to put your Raspberry Pi through its paces right out of the box? This tutorial guide is designed to get you learning all the tricks of the Raspberry Pi through building complete, hands-on hardware projects. Speed through the basics and then dive right in to development! Discover that you can do almost anything with your Raspberry Pi with a taste of almost everything. Get started with Pi Gaming as you learn how to set up Minecraft, and then program your own game with the help of Pygame. Turn the Pi into your own home security system with complete guidance on setting up a webcam spy camera and OpenCV computer vision for image recognition capabilities. Get to grips with GPIO programming to make a Pi-based glowing LED system, build a complete functioning motion tracker, and more. Finally, get ready to tackle projects that push your Pi to its limits. Construct a complete Internet of Things home automation system with the Raspberry Pi to control your house via Twitter; turn your Pi into a super-computer through linking multiple boards into a cluster and then add in advanced network capabilities for super speedy processing!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Raspberry Pi By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Playing Minecraft Pi


Minecraft Pi comes preinstalled in the latest version of Raspbian. So, there is no need for an additional installation. Minecraft Pi can be found by navigating to Menu | Games. Alternatively, we can start it by typing minecraft-pi in lxterminal. The following screen will appear once we start the game:

Click on the Start Game button. Then, the following window will appear:

Click on Create New and it will start generating a new world for the gameplay:

Once the new world for the gameplay is generated, the player character is placed in the virtual world. The default view in the game is the first-person view. It will look as follows:

Note

In Minecraft Pi, a new world is randomly generated in a procedural manner. This means that the world is randomly created with the algorithm rather than using predetermined components. So, no two worlds in Minecraft Pi will be the same. You can learn more about procedural generation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation.

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