Sai Yamanoor - Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop: Build exciting projects in home automation, personal health, gardening, and citizen science

Build exciting projects in home automation, personal health, gardening, and citizen science

Sai Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To all the makers who start several projects at a time and dream of finishing them one day.

Sai Yamanoor

To the wonderful cats that have owned my heart, Squeaky, Bob, Saxon, Gi-Ve, Fluffy Tux, Angel, Grey Cat, and now, Alphie, Fish-Bone, and Saxi!

Srihari Yamanoor

Sai Yamanoor is a senior IoT applications engineer at an industrial gases company in Buffalo, NY. He has over 10 years of experience as an embedded systems expert, working on both hardware and software design and implementations. He is a co-author of two books on the use of Raspberry Pi to execute DIY projects, and he has also presented a personal health dashboard at Maker Faires across the country. Sai is currently working on projects aimed at improving the Quality of Life (QoL) for people with chronic health conditions.

I want to thank my parents and my brother and co-author, Sri, for all the help and encouragement. I would also like to thank our technical reviewers, Salman Faris and Jonathan Witts, for their insightful comments and for reviewing our work carefully. I would like to thank Rahul Nair for giving us this opportunity to work with Packt. I would also like to thank Romy Dias and Vaidehi Sawant for their patience and for supporting our work.

Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer with experience spanning medical device design, CAD/CAM, mechatronics, and sustainability. In collaboration with his brother, he develops open source hardware products aimed at public education and awareness. He has multiple certifications in quality assurance, CAD, and FEA. Besides design, manufacturing, and quality, his current interests include behavioral change and working toward active improvement in the fight against diabetes, innovation paradigms and methodologies, and the impact of AI on healthcare. He is the co-author of two books on Raspberry Pi applications and writes blogs on various topics.

I want to thank my parents, mentors, friends, cats, and my brother and co-author, Sai, for all the help and encouragement. Specifically, I would like to thank my mentors Anna Tamura and Dr. Sudhi Gautam. Similarly, I owe gratitude to my friend Satyakanth Thyagaraja for standing by me during tough times. I would also like to thank the Packt team for all their support with this book, and our efforts throughout the years.

Salman Faris is a digital fabrication and rapid product prototype enthusiast from India who holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and a digital fabrication diploma from the Fab Academy. He is currently working as a technical support engineer at Nebra and is a key contributor to the MakerGram Maker community, where he tinkers with electronics and hardware product development.

Salman is also part of the Edge Impulse expert group, Qubitro, RAK, and Seeed Studio as well as an ambassador and core member of India's largest Maker gathering, Maker Faire Hyderabad, and co-organizer of Maker Fest Kerala.

I'd like to thank Allah first, for His almighty guidance in whatever decisions I make. I'd also like to thank Packt Publishing for the opportunity to review this wonderful book, especially Shagun and Ashwin who managed the review and helped me with guidance and support throughout the process. Thanks also to my parents, siblings, relatives, friends, team Nebra, and mentors.

Jon Witts has worked in IT within the education sector for over 17 years. He holds degrees in fine art and the design and development of e-learning. In his current role, as director of digital strategy, Jon leads all technological solutions in his school, as well as teaching computer science to students aged 11-16. Jon also runs the Hull Raspberry Jam events in his hometown: free coding events for young people using the Raspberry Pi computer. Jon has reviewed a number of titles for Packt and has written his own book, Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero, also published by Packt. In his free time, Jon enjoys creating generative art using the p5.js library and incorporating elements from Raspberry Pi physical computing.

I would like to thank my wife, Sally, and our three daughters, Mabel, Ember, and Ada, for all of their support in allowing me to work on this book. I would also like to thank the authors and all the team at Packt for allowing me to be involved in the process of creating this great publication.