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Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

By : Vasilis Tzivaras
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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)

Setting up Raspberry Pi

Before installing everything on our Raspberry Pi Zero W board, we need to download the latest distribution of Raspbian on our computer and use any kind of tool that works to install the software on our SD card. After this, we need to insert the SD card to the Raspberry Pi and power it on. We will use a GitHub repository for the next step. So, open up a terminal and type the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app.git  

With the preceding command, you clone the repository alexa-avs-sample-app on your local computer. In this repository, you need to find the installation script and execute it, but before this, you need to make some changes. While creating our developer account and setting this up, we went through three important fields. So, we need to find ProductID, ClientID, and ClientSecret. After we have found these...