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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

Introducing OpenCV


OpenCV (short for Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for computer vision. It was initially developed by the Intel Russia research center in Nizhny Novgorod, and it is currently maintained by Itseez.

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You can read more about Itseez at http://itseez.com/.

This is a cross-platform library, which means that it can be implemented and operated on different operating systems. It focuses mainly on image and video processing. In addition to this, it has several GUI and event handling features for the user's convenience.

OpenCV was released under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license, and hence, it is free for both academic and commercial use. It has interfaces for popular programming languages, such as C/C++, Python, and Java, and it runs on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Android, and Unix-like operating systems.

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You can explore the OpenCV homepage, www.opencv.org, for further details.

OpenCV was initially an Intel...