Yamanoor Sai - Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

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Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that helps students achieve their full potential. He completed his graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, and his undergraduate work in Mechatronics Engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and ppen software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve Quality of Life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai blogs about his adventures with Mechatronics at the aptly named Mechatronics Craze blog at http://mechatronicscraze.wordpress.com/. You can find his project portfolios at http://saiyamanoor.com.

This book is Sai's second title and he has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.

Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. He is severally certified in SolidWorks, Simulation, Sustainable Design, PDM as well as, in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His interests have a wide range, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, and photography to gardening and ecology. In his spare time, he is either traveling across California, dabbling in nature photography, or at home, tinkering with his garden and playing with his cats.

Ian McAlpine had his first introduction to computers was his school's Research Machines RML-380Z and his physics teacher's Compukit UK101. That was followed by a Sinclair ZX81 and then a BBC Micro Model A, which he still has to this day. That interest resulted in a MEng degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from Aston University and an MSc degree in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool. Ian is currently a Senior Product Expert in the BI & Analytics Competence Centre at SAP Labs in Vancouver, Canada.

The introduction of the Raspberry Pi rekindled his desire to "tinker", but also provided an opportunity to give back to the community. Consequently Ian was a very active volunteer for 3 years on The MagPi, a monthly magazine for the Raspberry Pi, which you can read online or download for free at http://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/. He also holds an amateur radio license (callsign VE7FTO) and is a communications volunteer for his local community Emergency Management Office. He was a technical reviewer for Packt books, such as Raspberry Pi Cookbook for Python Programmers