Getting Started With Raspberry Pi · 2nd Edition by Richardson, Matt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

What Can You Do with It? Raspberry Pi for Makers Linux and Raspberry Pi What Others Have Done with It Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Getting Up and Running

A Tour of the Boards The Proper Peripherals

The Case

Choose Your Distribution Flash the SD Card

For Advanced Users: Create Your Own Disk Image

Booting Up Configuring Your Pi Shutting Down

Running Headless

Troubleshooting Going Further

2. Getting Around Linux on the Raspberry Pi

Using the Command Line

Files and the Filesystem

More Linux Commands

Processes Sudo and Permissions The Network

/etc Setting the Date and Time Installing New Software Sound in Linux Upgrading Your Firmware Going Further

3. Specialized Distributions

Distributions for Home Theater Distributions for Music Hardware Hacking with Occidentalis Retrocomputing and Retrogaming Other Useful Distributions Going Further

4. Python on the Pi

Hello, Python A Bit More Python Objects and Modules Even More Modules Launching Other Programs from Python Troubleshooting Errors Going Further

5. Pygame for Animation and Multimedia

Hello, Pygame Pygame Surfaces Drawing on Surfaces Handling Events and Inputs Sprites Playing Sound Playing Video Going Further

6. Scratch on the Pi

Hello, Scratch The Stage Two More Things to Know about Sprites A Bigger Example: Astral Trespassers Scratch and the Real World Sharing Your Programs Going Further

7. Arduino and the Pi

Installing Arduino in Raspbian

Finding the Serial Port

Talking in Serial Using Firmata Going Further

8. Basic Input and Output

Using Inputs and Outputs

Digital Output: Lighting Up an LED

Beginner’s Guide to Breadboarding

Digital Input: Reading a Button

Project: Cron Lamp Timer

Scripting Commands Connecting a Lamp Scheduling Commands with cron

More About Cron

Going Further

9. Programming Inputs and Outputs with Python

Installing and Testing GPIO in Python Blinking an LED Reading a Button Project: Simple Soundboard Going Further

10. Analog Input and Output

Output: Converting Digital to Analog

Test Driving PWM Taking PWM Further

Input: Converting Analog to Digital

Variable Resistors

Voltage Divider Circuit Force-Sensitive Resistor

Going Further

11. Working with Cameras

Connecting and Testing the Camera Module

Project: Making a GIF Capturing Video

Testing USB Webcams Installing and Testing SimpleCV

Additional Steps for the Raspberry Pi Camera Module

Displaying an Image Modifying an Image Accessing the Webcam Face Detection Project: Raspberry Pi Photobooth Going Further

12. Python and the Internet

Download Data from a Web Server

Fetching the Weather Forecast

Serving Pi (Be a Web Server)

Flask Basics

Connecting the Web to the Real World Project: WebLamp Going Further

A. Writing an SD Card Image

Writing an SD Card from OS X Writing an SD Card from Windows Writing an SD Card from Linux

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