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Raspberry Pi By Example

Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi right out of the box

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Arush Kakkar  
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|Sep 2025
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Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi right out of the box

Key Features

  • * Explore the vast range of opportunities provided by Raspberry Pi and other hardware components such as a webcam, the Pi camera, and sensors
  • * Get hands-on experience with coding, networking, and hardware with the Raspberry Pi platform
  • * Learn through ample screenshots that offer a play-by-play account of how to implement Raspberry-Pi-based real-life projects

Book Description

Want to put your Raspberry Pi through its paces right out of the box? This tutorial guide is designed to get you learning all the tricks of the Raspberry Pi through building complete, hands-on hardware projects. Speed through the basics and then dive right in to development!
Discover that you can do almost anything with your Raspberry Pi with a taste of almost everything. Get started with Pi Gaming as you learn how to set up Minecraft, and then program your own game with the help of Pygame. Turn the Pi into your own home security system with complete guidance on setting up a webcam spy camera and OpenCV computer vision for image recognition capabilities. Get to grips with GPIO programming to make a Pi-based glowing LED system, build a complete functioning motion tracker, and more. Finally, get ready to tackle projects that push your Pi to its limits. Construct a complete Internet of Things home automation system with the Raspberry Pi to control your house via Twitter; turn your Pi into a super-computer through linking multiple boards into a cluster and then add in advanced network capabilities for super speedy processing!

What you will learn

  • * Set up your Raspberry Pi and get it ready for some interesting real-life projects
  • * Work with images, videos, webcams, and the Pi camera and create amazing time-lapse videos
  • * Explore the amazing world of Minecraft Pi
  • * Get to know how to use PiGlow for GPIO programming
  • * Interface your Pi with Grove Sensors and implement IoT applications
  • * Build your own cluster with Raspberry Pi
  • * Understand the networking and network programming fundamentals

Who this book is for

What's the best way to learn how to use your Raspberry Pi? By example! If you want something exciting to do whilst getting to grips with what your Pi can offer, this is the book for you. With both simple and complex projects, you'll create a wide variety of cool toys and functions with your Raspberry Pi - all with minimal coding experience necessary.

Table of Contents

  1. Let
  2. Gaming with Raspberry Pi
  3. Build your own Game with Pygame
  4. Using WebCam and PiCamera
  5. GPIO and It
  6. Create your own animated movie with Raspberry Pi
  7. Introduction to Computer Vision
  8. Create your own Motion Detection and Tracking System
  9. Grove Sensors and Shield for Raspberry Pi
  10. Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi
  11. Build your own Supercomputer with Raspberry Pis
  12. Advanced Networking with Raspberry Pi
  13. Setting up a Webserver on the Raspberry Pi
  14. Network Programming in Python with Pi
  15. Appendix : Raspberry Pi New Models
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-674-2
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 294
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
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