Prior to this, his extensive work as a freelancer in the domain of electronics hardware design introduced him to rapid prototyping development boards such as the Raspberry Pi. In his spare time, he loves to develop projects on Raspberry Pi that include vision, data logging, web servers, and machine learning automation systems. He loves to teach Raspberry Pi projects to school students.
His vision encompasses connecting every entity in the world to the Internet to enhance the human living experience. His hobbies include playing the tabla, photography, and travelling.
Acknowledgements
First of all, I must say thanks to my acquisition editor Richard Harvey. I never knew that I could write a book on such an amazing topic as Raspberry Pi Sensors . He gave me the opportunity and tremendous support and motivation before I wrote the initial chapters. So thanks for selecting me out of millions as the author of this book and inspiring me to do this.
Thanks goes also to my content editors Natasha Dsouza and Owen Roberts. You were always ready to lend me a hand wherever I was stuck. Thanks for the understanding and cooperation when I lost my pace of writing in the intermediate chapters due to tremendous work pressure. Special thanks to Natasha, who has poured hours of her time to edit the content and make it better, and supported me throughout the time I spent writing this book.
Then, thanks to my technical content developers David Alcoba, Siddharth Bhave, and Cdric Verstraeten. I sincerely thank you for investing your precious time technically reviewing this book, and providing very useful additions and valuable comments over the content, to make it more interesting for readers. By incorporating your valuable suggestions, this book has achieved a really good shape.
How can I forget Shiny Poojary and team who edited the book technically and filtered out errors in the content of the book. They totally changed the presentation of the book. I thank her for her continuous support, working untiringly to edit the book on time, and taking it to the final stage. I also thank all the employees of Packt Publishing who were directly or indirectly involved in this project, for managing everything and delivering it to the readers' hands.
Thanks to my friends, professors, and colleagues. I would like to thank all my friends, who have been part of my life, given me happiness, supported me to do this, and wished me the best before I started working on this book. Thanks to the professors at VIT University, and special thanks to Dr. Arun Manoharan for giving me a small but very helpful insight into being an author. My colleagues at Leaf Technologies always took updates from me about the progress of this book and encouraged me to include strong content.
Above all, I would sincerely like to thank my parents for asking me every day about this book's progress and showing keen interest in seeing it take shape, in spite of all the time for which it kept me away from them.
About the Reviewers
David Alcoba , for many years, considered himself a software engineer who liked to play with electronics in his spare time. While being responsible for designing and building highly secure distributed applications for the industry, he also decided to start gaining more and more knowledge of digital fabrication tools every day. And it was then that he realized he had just discovered a world where all of his different interests could be merged into a single project.
Based on this idea, he helped create Vailets Hacklab in 2014, a local community in Barcelona that aims to hack the current educational system so that kids might be co-creators of their future through technology, instead of being just its consumers.
Following the spirit of this initiative, David decided to cofound Makerkids Barcelona,a small start-up focused on providing professional services for schools and organizations to engage kids with the new maker movement and follow the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) educative principles.
Nowadays, David feels that he is not an engineer anymore but a maker.
Siddharth Bhave is a big data researcher at the Center for Data Science at the University of Washington. With a background in electronics and embedded systems, he is interested in the distributed systems aspect of recent big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark. Siddharth implements and analyzes various machine learning algorithms on Xeon servers. Characterizing their behavior and studying the scalability of algorithms is something that he picked up during his internship at Intel. During his MS degree in computer science, he worked on developing a piece of middleware to work with real-time sensor data fed to a cluster of Raspberry Pi nodes. He wants to translate his work to scale and expand the concept of Internet of Things.
I would like to thank my family and friends, who always believe in me, and all my teachers and professors, who always inspire me.
Cdric Verstraeten holds an MSc in engineering and is primarily active in the C++ community. He works as a software engineer and is a huge open source enthusiast. He spends most of his time on side projects that can automate and simplify people's lives. He's the organizer of the Raspberry Pi Belgium meet-up.