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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to connect and interface the GrovePi Shield with the Raspberry Pi, and how to connect the various sensors to it, and use their data to display on external peripherals. We also looked at and understood two examples that can be used easily in real life for useful tasks.

In the next chapter, we will learn about the Internet of Things and how to connect sensors to get the data online and use it effectively. For example, we can extend the intruder detection example and make it such that it e-mails us the photo of the intruder it just took. In this way, we can receive real-time updates from our chosen monitored location. The Internet of Things is a very useful concept and due to the inexpensiveness of the components it takes to get a working system, it is becoming very popular across the globe to make 'dumb' devices 'intelligent'.