| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Series |
Community experience distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi; Let's get started; Unboxing the Raspberry Pi; Configure power for Pi; Local display, keyboard, mouse, or remote headless access; Selecting a screen; Connecting VGA displays; Getting your SD Card ready; Booting the Raspberry Pi for the first time; It's time to power up the Pi; No video on initial boot; Final installation configuration; A quick tour of the desktop; Instructions for downloading all project files; Summary |
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Raspberry Pi Desktop and SoftwareHardware and software networking configuration; Client reservations for Ethernet and wireless; Configuring the Raspberry Pi desktop and software; Keeping the development environment up to date; Setting up a screensaver; Manually locking your session; Desktop and file manager accelerators; Adding root privileges to the PCManFM file manager; Programming on the Raspberry Pi; Developing with Bash shell scripts; Project 1 -- Building a talking clock with a Bash script; Creating project files and directories |
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Building a talking clock with Python 3Summary; Chapter 3: Raspberry Pi and Cameras; Connecting cameras to the Raspberry Pi; PiCam and PiNoIR; Webcams; Project architecture for the Raspberry Pi security camera; Features and limitations of the cameras; Testing camera capability; Viewing CPU resource for the luvcview application; Verifying the PiCam operation; Controlling data storage for video; Testing the data storage limit; Project 1 -- Running raspivid as a background service; Project 1a -- Creating a Bash script to drive raspivid; Testing the picam.sh script |
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Project 1b -- Creating a movement detector with a USB cameraTest the webcam installation; A final word on resolution and frame rate for movement detection; Project 2 -- Combining the webcam movement detector and the PiCam camera; Project 3 -- Creating a simple Python GUI for the security application; Summary; Chapter 4: Raspberry Pi Audio Input and Output; Audio quality and bandwidth; Audio capability on the Raspberry Pi; Limited headphone output; Understanding the ALSA configuration; Configuring the default device for ALSA; Configuring the Raspberry Pi to support high-quality sound |
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Project 1 -- Installing an advanced audio playback applicationBuilding an Internet radio based on VLC and Raspberry Pi; Project 2a -- Running VLC in the background for the Internet radio; Starting VLC automatically at reboot; Project 2b -- Designing a playlist file for the Internet radio; Chapter 4 supplemental materials; Project 2c: Parsing the playlist file for the Internet radio; Project 2d -- Implementing a Python text interface to VLC; Project 3 -- Implementing a TKinter GUI for the Internet radio; Running tktest.py; Creating a clock in the radio UI; Running tkradio.py |
| Summary |
Programmers new to the Raspberry Pi and novice programmers with little to no experience with micro board computing will find the book useful. A basic knowledge of programming languages in general will prove useful for a better understanding of the topics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed May 13, 2015) |
| Subject |
Raspberry Pi (Computer)
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Microcomputers.
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Microcomputers
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microcomputers.
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COMPUTERS -- Computer Science.
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Microcomputers
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Raspberry Pi (Computer)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784396923 |
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1784396923 |
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