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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

The Raspberry Pi 3


The Raspberry Pi 3 is the latest addition to the Raspberry Pi family. It is a third-generation Raspberry Pi. It replaced the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B in February 2016. Compared to the Pi 2, it has the following features:

  • A 1.2-GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU

  • 802.11n onboard wireless LAN

  • Bluetooth 4.1

  • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Also, like the Raspberry Pi 2, also has the following features:

  • Four USB ports

  • 40 GPIO pins

  • A full-HDMI port

  • An Ethernet port

  • A combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video

  • A camera interface (CSI)

  • A display interface (DSI)

  • A micro-SD card slot (now push-pull rather than push-push)

  • A VideoCore IV 3D graphics core

The form factor of the Pi 3 is identical to that of the Pi 2 and Pi 1 Model B+. The Pi 3 has complete backward compatibility with the Pi 1 and 2.

Note

The product description for the Pi Zero and Pi 3 can be found on Raspberry Pi's official product pages:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/