This fully illustrated guide shows how to create and program all kinds of fun and innovative gadgets with your Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi Electronics Projects for the Evil Genius features 10 complete projects that showcase cool RasPi applications in computing, communications, robotics, photography, and video.
Each inexpensive Evil Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and clear, step-by-step assembly and programming instructions. This entertaining, easy-to-follow book gets you up-and-running quickly on C, Java, and Python, and covers "all" RasPi versions, including the latest A+, B+, and B model 2 units.
Learn how to:
· Explore the capabilities and features of your Raspberry Pi
· Display scrolling text and graphics on an RGB LED matrix screen
· Handle RasPi-to-RasPi communications using MQTT
· Incorporate interesting software defined radio (SDR) features
· Build your own super computer from eight RasPi model B+s
· Make a robotic car from Legos and control it with your RasPi
· Configure the RasPi to control a basic robotic arm through the I2C bus
· Assemble and program complex 3DOF and 6DOF robotic arms
· Construct a hi-res point-and-shoot and a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera
· Engineer a complete infrared video surveillance system using the Pi Noir camera
About the Author:
Donald Norris is an experienced engineer and adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University. He is the author of Programming the Intel Edison: Getting Started with Processing and Python, Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius, Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev-8, and The Internet of Things: Do-It-Yourself at Home Projects for Arduino, Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black.