Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start Guide by Maik Schmidt

By Maik Schmidt

Maik Schmidt, "Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start Guide"
English | 2012 | one hundred twenty pages | EPUB | four + five MB

Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start consultant promises every little thing you must get the Raspberry Pi up and working and doing cool stuff. You’ll start by means of studying what extra you wish and the way to attach it, set up Debian Linux and configure it on your wishes, and customise the Pi’s firmware to get the main from your hardware.

Then the joys starts off. You’ll attach the Pi in your domestic community and take a look at browsing the net and tweeting messages. You’ll methods to get the main out of Midori, the Pi’s usual browser. Then in a number of basic steps you’ll flip the Pi right into a kiosk method that screens Twitter stay seek details. You’ll additionally find out how you could keep watch over the computers of alternative computers in your home with the Pi.

Once you've the fundamentals down, you’ll discover the Pi’s versatility with a chain of domestic tasks. flip it right into a internet server in your house community. Convert the Pi right into a strong multimedia heart so that you can watch high-definition video and hear your favourite tune. Play vintage games. Then use the GPIO pins at the Raspberry Pi to construct electronics initiatives equivalent to an “out of memory” alarm, and find out how to entry the undertaking utilizing an internet browser. energy to the Pi!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Meet the Raspberry Pi
Chapter 2. set up an working System
Chapter three. Configure Raspbian
Chapter four. Configure the Firmware
Chapter five. Intermezzo: construct a Kiosk with the Pi
Chapter 6. Networking with the Pi
Chapter 7. flip the Pi right into a Multimedia Center
Chapter eight. Play video games in your Pi
Chapter nine. Tinker with the GPIO Pins

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