Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer

by Ruth Suehle, Tom Callaway

With more than 60 practical and creative hacks, this book helps you turn Raspberry Pi into the centerpiece of some cool electronics projects. Want to create a controller for a camera or a robot? Set up Linux distributions for media centers or PBX phone systems? That’s just the beginning of what you’ll find inside Raspberry Pi Hacks.

If you’re looking to build either a software or hardware project with more computing power than Arduino alone can provide, Raspberry Pi is just the ticket. And the hacks in this book will give you lots of great ideas.

Use configuration hacks to get more out of your Pi
Build your own web server or remote print server
Take the Pi outdoors to monitor your garden or control holiday lights
Connect with SETI or construct an awesome Halloween costume
Hack the Pi’s Linux OS to support more complex projects
Decode audio/video formats or make your own music player
Achieve a low-weight payload for aerial photography
Build a Pi computer cluster or a solar-powered lab

Genres: Technology, Programming, Computer Science, Reference

394 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Buzz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fantastic. Some suggest that it should be updated as the + models and 2 is out. This is probably true as it does reference a lot of projects on github. I went through the process of compiling omxplayer which took several hours, but then I was left wondering if this was even necessary as the version on raspbian repos may have already been fine (I should have checked this first). I find books like this interesting to read even though I may not have a lot of time to do the projects. If I were deciding on purchasing this book now, I'd probably wait and see if an updated edition was coming out soon which covers Raspberry Pi 2.

[Patrice Monassier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livre de "recettes" couvrant un très large panel d'optimisation, de créations informatiques et électroniques. Parfaitement complémentaire de "Hacking Raspberry Pi", ce livre s'adressera principalement aux utilisateurs intermédiaires (ayant une bonne connaissance de la ligne de commande, faisant quelques montages électroniques sous Arduino, par exemple). Utile et agréable. Point négatif : nécessiterait une petite réactualisation de certains hacks (notamment l'accès aux GPIO déjà inclus dans le noyau Linux de Raspbian mais seulement blacklisté).

[Mills College Library]

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