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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)

Mood selection

By now, you should have a complete system that plays music and is connected to your Raspberry Pi Zero W board. Now, to make it more smart, let's add a mood selection system that plays the appropriate music playlist according to your mood. To do that, we first need to create a few playlists that will correspond to our mood. For example, let's define the first playlist as Acoustic Playlist and the second one as Rock Playlist. We can do that in many ways, one of which is to create two folders with the appropriate names and place some songs in each of them. Using cvlc that we mentioned earlier, we will be able to connect our music player with any script. So what is left is the trigger system.

The trigger system will be implemented according to the equipment that you have. The most easy mood selection system that we can create will consist of two buttons each...