Raspberry Pi By Example

294 Pages·2016·6.362 MB·English

by  Ashwin Pajankar, Arush Kakkar

Raspberry Pi By Example
Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi
right out of the box
Ashwin Pajankar
Arush Kakkar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Raspberry Pi By Example
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Credits
Authors Copy Editors
Ashwin Pajankar Stuti Srivastava
Arush Kakkar Madhusudan Uchil
Reviewers Project Coordinator
Nathan Johnson Nikhil Nair
Elliot Kermit-Canfield
Anna Torlen Proofreader
Safis Editing
Commissioning Editor
Dipika Gaonkar Indexer
Priya Sane
Acquisition Editor
Ashwin Nair Graphics
Kirk D'Penha
Content Development Editor
Merwyn D'souza Production Coordinator
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Technical Editors
Nirant Carvalho Cover Work
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About the Authors
Ashwin Pajankar is a software professional and IoT enthusiast with more than
5 years' experience in software design, development, testing, and automation.
He graduated from IIIT Hyderabad, earning an M.Tech in computer science and
engineering. He holds multiple professional certifications from Oracle, IBM,
Teradata, and ISTQB in development, databases, and testing. He has won several
awards in college through outreach initiatives, at work for technical achievements,
and community service through corporate social responsibility programs.
He was introduced to Raspberry Pi while organizing a hackathon at his workplace,
and he's been hooked on Pi ever since. He writes plenty of code in C, Bash, Python,
and Java on his cluster of Pis. He's already authored one book on Raspberry Pi and
reviewed three other titles related to Python for Packt Publishing.
His LinkedIn Profile is at https://in.linkedin.com/in/ashwinpajankar.
I would like to thank my wife, Kavitha, for motivating me to write
this book and share my knowledge with others. I would like to thank
my coauthor, Arush Kakkar, for taking over the project after the first
few chapters. I also thank Merwyn D'Souza from Packt Publishing
for providing me with the opportunity, guidance, and required
support in writing this book. Last but not least, I would like to thank
all the reviewers who helped me make the book better by providing
their precious feedback.
Arush Kakkar is a computer vision and deep learning researcher and an
undergraduate at Delhi Technological University. His primary focus is on
autonomous robotics, which includes drones and self-driving cars, and he has
been involved in building such systems in different capacities, such as navigation,
localization, path planning. He has also leveraged state-of-the art computer vision
and deep learning technologies for them. He is the electrical systems head of the
Solar Car team of his university, Solaris DTU.
He is currently working on his own driverless car company, CruiseX, which uses
deep learning to drive more smoothly and with fewer errors.
You can connect with him through his website at http://www.arushkakkar.com
and read up on some of his projects at http://blog.arushkakkar.com.
I would like to thank my parents for supporting me in writing this
book. I would like to thank Ashwin for collaborating while writing
this book, and I would also like to thank Merwyn from Packt
Publishing for coordinating the collaboration. I am thankful to
all the reviewers for helping me improve the book and expanding
my knowledge.
About the Reviewers
Nathan Johnson is an NC State University graduate and the author and
maintainer of the node-arm project. Apart from node-arm, he has also contributed
to several other Raspberry Pi projects. He currently works for the Charlotte-based
company Red Ventures as a software engineer writing applications in Node.js.
I would like to thank my mom, dad, and brother for reminding me
to use all the talents I've been given.
Elliot Kermit-Canfield is a graduate student studying computer music at the
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. In
addition to a degree in music, science, and technology from Stanford, he holds
degrees in integrative arts and music theory from Penn State. Elliot is an avid
computer musician and has worked with Raspberry Pi and other embeddable
systems with audio applications.
Anna Torlen is an artist, educator, and techie. She received a bachelor of arts
degree in studio art at The College of Santa Fe and a master of fine arts degree in
media, technology, and entertainment at Florida Atlantic University. She has worked
on Raspberry Pi projects at her college and at Hacklab in Boynton Beach, FL. She
has contributed to the Adafruit Community Corner blog. She is currently working
at Palm Beach State College as a multimedia adjunct professor. She is interested in
building outdoor solar-powered Internet of Things Raspberry Pi projects.
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Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: Introduction to Raspberry Pi and Python 1
Single-board computers 1
Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi models 3
Operating systems 7
Raspbian 8
Setting up the Raspberry Pi 8
Preparing MicroSD card manually 10
Booting up our Pi for the first time 14
Shutting down and rebooting Pi safely 17
Updating the Pi 18
Getting started with Python 19
Turtle programming with Python 24
Summary 28
Chapter 2: Minecraft Pi 29
Introduction to Minecraft Pi 29
Playing Minecraft Pi 30
Movement control in Minecraft Pi 34
Action control in Minecraft Pi 35
Other controls in Minecraft Pi 38
Python programming for Minecraft Pi 38
Summary 44
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