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Ultimate Guide to Raspberry Pi - Tips, Tricks, and Hacks [Video]

By : Lee Assam
Book Image

Ultimate Guide to Raspberry Pi - Tips, Tricks, and Hacks [Video]

By: Lee Assam

Overview of this book

This step-by-step course on Raspberry Pi will help you dive into what Raspberry Pi is and learn the components you need in order to set everything up. You will also understand the configuration tips for the Raspberry Pi Operating System. This course takes you through how to easily flash an SD card with any OS for the Pi and multiple methods of connecting remotely to your Raspberry Pi will be covered to show how you can run it in “headless mode” without a monitor. Furthermore, you will dive into the terminal and Linux commands to show how you can navigate your system, work with files, and perform network and system commands and keyboard shortcuts. You will also work with GPIO pins and show how you can control LEDs, determine if a button is pressed, work with a PIR sensor, and how to make a PIR sensor alarm circuit. You will learn to work with cameras and images and how to set up a USB webcam and install software to create a live streaming camera feed. Learn to use the Raspberry Pi Camera module and how to interact with it programmatically to take photos and videos and create special effects. By the end of the course, you will create a working Amazon Echo Clone with the Alexa Voice Service. All resources and code files are placed here: https://github.com/packtpublishing/2019-ultimate-guide-to-raspberry-pi-tips-tricks-and-hacks
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
2
Setting Up the Hardware for Your Raspberry Pi
4
Configuring Your Raspbian OS Installation
8
Installing Software on Your Raspberry Pi
11
Using the Power Pins on the Raspberry Pi
17
Working with Cameras and Images
Chapter 1
Introduction
Section 1
What Is a Raspberry Pi?
We dive into what a Raspberry Pi is and what are some of the things you can do with the hardware platform.