After retiring early from the computing industry, Jack avidly participates in social network groups that share his passion for next generation technology solutions.
About the Reviewers
P Ashwin is a Bangalore-based engineer who wears many different hats depending on the occasion. He graduated from IIIT Hyderabad in 2012 as a Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. He has a total of 5 years of experience in the software industry where he worked in different domains, such as testing, data warehousing, replication, and automation. He is very well versed in DB concepts, SQL, and scripting with Bash and Python. He has earned professional certifications in products from Oracle, IBM, Informatica, and Teradata. He's also an ISTQB certified Tester.
In his free time, he volunteers for different technical hackathons and social service activities. He was introduced to Raspberry Pi in one of the hackathons and he's been hooked on it ever since. He writes a lot of code in Python, C, C++, and Shell on his Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. He's currently working on creating his own Beowulf cluster of 64 Raspberry Pi 2s.
Scott Gibson is an Electrical Engineer from Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He works as a software developer in the wireless telecommunications industry as well as a consultant specializing in embedded hardware and software development.
Scott has a passion for all things technical with particular interest in projects that cross between software, hardware, and mechanical engineering. Scott runs the website www.thegreatgeekery.com documenting some of his personal projects as well as contributions to the open source community.
Werner Ziegelwanger (MSc) has studied game engineering and simulation and got his master's degree in 2011. His master's thesis was published with the title Terrain Rendering with Geometry Clipmaps for Games by Diplomica Verlag . His hobbies are programming, games, and all kinds of technical gadgets.
Werner worked as a self-employed programmer for many years and mainly did web projects. At that time, he started his own blog (http://developer-blog.net), which is about the Raspberry Pi, Linux, and open source technologies.
Since 2013, Werner has been working as a Magento developer and head of programming at mStage GmbH, an e-commerce company focused on Magento.
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This book is dedicated to my wife, April. Without her dedication and support this book would not exist.
April provided encouragement to start the project, and acted as the Instructional designer and editor once underway.
Her patience and input as we built the learning objectives helped us meet most of the deadlines, and significantly enhanced the materials.
I can only hope she will perform this function again for the next book.
Preface
The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, highly capable computer system about the size of a deck of cards that can use a standard-sized keyboard, monitor, and mouse. This book will show you how to use this amazing little machine to design and configure your own development environment, build really cool hobby projects, and gain expertise in project design and development. You will also learn how to take advantage of existing open source tools, applications, and scripts.
It doesn't matter whether you are new to the hobby project world or you are an experienced DIY maker; from the very first chapter, we guide you through complex software and hardware concepts. This book uses a project-based learning design, from setting up a graphical desktop interface to driving a line-following robot; you learn what you need to know when you need it.
As you complete the projects, you will build on what you learn in the chapters and continue to expand your expertise, using complex computing solutions for your Raspberry Pi.