Raspberry Pi® Projects For Dummies®, 1 by Cook, Mike -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Introduction

About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Projects

Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Raspberry Pi

Getting a Raspberry Pi Discovering What You Can and Can’t Do with a Raspberry Pi Getting Familiar with Your Raspberry Pi Selecting Your Accessories Setting Up Your Operating System Flashing Your SD Card Connecting Your Hardware Setting Up with Raspi-config Starting Up the Desktop Environment Troubleshooting Your Raspberry Pi

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Tools and Workbench

Getting Ready to Build Your Projects Assembling Your Tools Using Your Tools Safely and Effectively Getting Ready to Build Raspberry Pi LEGO Projects

Chapter 3: Focusing on Technique

Getting Around Your Raspberry Pi Using the Command-Line Interface Programming Like a Pro

Chapter 4: The Raspberry Family

In the Beginning: Looking at the Evolution of the Raspberry Pi Deciding Which Raspberry Pi to Buy Figuring Out Which Raspberry Pi You Have

Part II: Working with LEDs and Switches

Chapter 5: The Sauce Bottle Game

The Game The Software Taking It Farther

Chapter 6: Stomp!

Getting Acquainted with the LED Stomp 1 Stomp 2

Chapter 7: The Light Fantastic

Introducing the Light Fantastic The Circuit Construction Bringing It All to Life

Chapter 8: Games for the Light Fantastic

Treasure Hunt Sliding Block Puzzle Color Match Lights Out Exploring a World of Possibilities

Part III: Developing Advanced Interfaces

Chapter 9: Advanced Interfaces

Converting Analog to Digital Introducing the Analog-to-Digital Conversion Methods Building an Analog-to-Digital Converter Using a Potentiometer to Control the Breakdown Game Creating an Analog Temperature Sensor Interfacing with an Analog-to-Digital Microchip

Chapter 10: Raspberry Pi in the Sky

Understanding the Cloud Storing Data in Google Docs from Your Raspberry Pi Creating a Dashboard and Temperature Alerts Using PrivateEyePi Creating a Database Logger

Chapter 11: Webcam and Computer Vision

Setting Up the Webcam or Raspberry Pi Camera Module Understanding Images Creating an Image File Detecting Motion with a Webcam Working with Image Recognition Interpreting Color Building a Connect Four Game Using Computer Vision

Chapter 12: The Raspberry Jazz Glitter Trio

Meeting the Gang Testing the Webcam Hacking the Glitter Lamp Letting the Band Play

Part IV: Making the Raspberry Pi Your LEGO’s Magic Brick

Chapter 13: The Pi Meets LEGO

Exploring the MINDSTORMS Range Creating a Tug-of-War LEGO Robot Going on from Here

Chapter 14: The LEGO Dice Game

Introducing the Dice Game Understanding the Game Theory Detecting Dice Looking at the Playing Mechanism Writing the Code Customizing the Code

Chapter 15: LEGO Direct

Creating a Reset Button for the Raspberry Pi Making Batteries Last Longer Using Connectors and Cables to Control the LEGO Motors and Sensors Reading and Commanding Rolling Your Own Motor Control Listening to Sensors

Part V: Exploring RISC OS

Chapter 16: Introducing RISC OS

Knowing What Makes RISC OS Unique Preparing for Action: Getting RISC OS All Systems Go: Starting Up RISC OS Handling Graphics with !Paint and !Draw Connecting to the Outside World Identifying the Resources That Are Already Installed

Chapter 17: RISC OS Coding

In the Beginning Was BASIC Hello World The Insult Generator Understanding Full Desktop Applications Working with Graphics in RISC OS

Chapter 18: Transistor Tester

Getting Acquainted with Transistors Configuring Transistors Designing the Circuit Constructing the Circuit Writing the Software

Chapter 19: The General-Purpose Input/Output Port in RISC OS

Using the GPIO Pins in RISC OS Getting an LED to Blink Mixing Languages

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 20: Ten Great LEGO Pi Projects

Panobot MATLAB and Simulink Raspberry Pi LEGO Case Book Reader A Stop-Motion LEGO Movie SriShooter browserBot BrickPi Remote Sentry Cannon LEGO Digital Clock The Original LEGO MINDSTORMS

Chapter 21: Ten Suppliers of Components and Tools

Farnell/Newark RS Components Rapid Electronics Mouser Electronics Digi-Key Proxxon Adafruit SparkFun Electronic Goldmine E.M.A. Model Supplies

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