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Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

By : Vasilis Tzivaras
Book Image

Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

By: Vasilis Tzivaras

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi has always been the go–to, lightweight ARM-based computer. The recent launch of the Pi Zero W has not disappointed its audience with its $10 release. "W" here stands for Wireless, denoting that the Raspberry Pi is solely focused on the recent trends for wireless tools and the relevant use cases. This is where our book—Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects—comes into its own. Each chapter will help you design and build a few DIY projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero W board. First, you will learn how to create a wireless decentralized chat service (client-client) using the Raspberry Pi's features?. Then you will make a simple two-wheel mobile robot and control it via your Android device over your local Wi-Fi network. Further, you will use the board to design a home bot that can be connected to plenty of devices in your home. The next two projects build a simple web streaming security layer using a web camera and portable speakers that will adjust the playlist according to your mood. You will also build a home server to host files and websites using the board. Towards the end, you will create free Alexa voice recognition software and an FPV Pi Camera, which can be used to monitor a system, watch a movie, spy on something, remotely control a drone, and more. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills required to build exciting and complex projects with Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

User input

In this section, we will see some basic ways in which a user can message or talk to a bot. There are several ways that anyone can talk to their bot depending on the operating system that they are using. Raspberry Pi Zero W can be used as the bot or as the user input device. Raspberry Pi 3 was a good board for creating even a Facebook bot, but this new Raspberry Pi Zero W board is not recommended to be used for difficult purposes such as running a huge bot. So, what we will do in this project is a simple demonstration of how things work and how we can develop a bot from scratch.

In this section, we will develop a web page to use as the user input device. With this, you can easily develop an Android application or a speech recognition system. Everything will work fine as long as the program has a string of what the user said as output. The web page will be developed in...