Getting Started with Raspberry Pi by Richardson, Matt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi 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 Acknowledgements

1. Getting Up and Running

A Tour of the Boards The Proper Peripherals The Case Flash the SD Card Booting Up Configuring Your Pi Shutting Down 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 Going Further

3. Python On The Pi

Hello Python A Bit More Python Objects and Modules Even More Modules Troubleshooting Errors Going Further

4. Animation and Multimedia in Python

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

5. 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

6. Arduino and the Pi

Installing Arduino in Raspbian

Finding the Serial Port

Talking in Serial Going Further

7. Basic Input and Output

Using Inputs and Outputs

Digital Output: Lighting Up an LED Digital Input: Reading a Button

Project: Cron Lamp Timer

Scripting Commands Connecting a Lamp Scheduling Commands with cron

More About Cron

Going Further

8. Programming Inputs and Outputs with Python

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

9. Working with Webcams

Testing Webcams Installing and Testing SimpleCV Displaying an Image Modifying an Image Accessing the Webcam Face Detection Project: Raspberry Pi Photobooth Going Further

10. 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

B. Astral Trespassers Complete C. Analog Input

Converting Analog to Digital

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