Raspberry Pi Projects by Andrew Robinson, Mike Cook

By Andrew Robinson, Mike Cook

Learn to construct software program and initiatives that includes the Raspberry Pi!

Raspberry Pi represents a brand new iteration of pcs that encourages the person to play and to benefit and this specific e-book is aimed toward the newbie Raspberry Pi person who's wanting to start growing real-world initiatives. Taking you on a trip of constructing sixteen sensible tasks, this enjoyable and informative source introduces you to the talents you want to have so that it will utilize the Pi. The booklet starts with a short examine easy methods to get the Pi up and working after which encourages you to dive into the array of interesting software program and projects.

•Features tasks that use Python, that is Raspberry Pi's programming language of choice
• comprises initiatives for developing a data middle for e mail, Twitter, fb, climate, teach instances, and more
• indicates you the way to recreate Pong and Pacman or write Tic Tac Toe
• Teaches you the way to take advantage of Raspberry Pi's common goal input/output port as a way to communicate to exterior devices
• Walks you thru constructing computer-controlled slot motor vehicle racing, a swipe card door lock, disco lighting, and more

Raspberry Pi Projects is a wonderful solution to dig deeper into the functions of the Pi and to have nice enjoyable whereas doing it.

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You only need to import a function once in a program, but you can use it multiple times. Insult Your Friends by Name! The programs so far have produced an output, but when run, have not taken any input from the user. The next example asks the user for a name and then prints a personalised greeting. ”) print (“Hello “ + name) raw_input became the input function in Python 3. If you’re using IDLE 3, remember to type input wherever you see raw_input in the examples in this book. The raw_input function (renamed to input in Python 3) takes a message to print as its argument and returns the data the user entered.

Figure 3-1: The relationship of the board to the list. So the first thing you need to do is write a function that will print out the board on the Python text console. This is the sort of thing that was done before the widespread use of graphics windows, and is a lot simpler to cope with. Basically, you need to output each square 52 RASPBERRY PI PROJECTS on the board but print on a new line when you have outputted squares 2 or 5. This first program is shown in Listing 3-1. com/go/raspberrypiprojects.

You will see the IDLE window appear in interactive mode. In this mode, what you type is interpreted as soon as you press Return, which is a great way to try out your Python code. Type the following code: print (“Hello World”) Computers are less forgiving of mistakes than humans, so make sure that you type the code exactly as it appears in this and other examples in this book. Press Return. You should see Python run your first line of code and display the greet- ing shown in Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2: Python says “Hello World”.

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