Warren Gay

Mastering the Raspberry Pi

Need some inspiration for your Raspberry Pi projects? Wondering how to work with Wii nunchucks, stepper motors, how to create a remote control panel? If you need guidance, Experimenting with Raspberry Pi is your own personal idea generator. Experimenting with Raspberry Pi covers how to work with various components and hardware like humidity and temperature sensors, Wii nunchucks, GPIO extenders, and IR receivers so you can add these to your own projects. Written with budgets in mind, author Warren Gay encourages you to build, experiment, and swap out various parts to learn more about the Pi and come up with the best ideas and instructions for your own amazing Raspberry Pi project ideas. What you’ll learn How to make a GPIO extender How to work with a stepper motor and the Pi, including building an H-bridge driver How to make a remote control panel with the Pi How to use Pulse Width Modulation with the Pi Who this book is for Raspberry Pi tinkerers and electronics hobbyists who want to try out the Pi with different sensors and components while learning more about how the Pi works. Table of Contents Ch. 1 – Humidity and Temperature Sensor Ch. 2 - GPIO Extender Ch. 3 - Nunchuk Mouse Ch. 4 - Real-Time Clock Ch. 5 - IR Receiver Ch. 6 - Stepper Motor Ch. 7 - The H-Bridge Driver Ch. 8 - Remote Control Panel Ch. 9 - Pulse Width Modulation: Driving an Analog Meter Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Power Standards Appendix C: Electronics Reference Appendix D: ARM Compile Options Appendix E: Mac OS X Tips

Experimenting with Raspberry Pi

Design and build custom hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi and discover low cost display and sensor options for embedded system projects. With this book you'll master 12C communications using Raspbian Linux in C++ and perform ADC and DAC experiments. You'll experiment with debounce buttons and switches using hardware and software solutions. Develop flywheel rotary encoder effects for ease of tuning and construct a hardware interface to the Music Playing Daemon (MPD) with developed software. Discover how to add your own hardware keypad for remote combination lock applications. Custom Raspberry Pi Interfaces offers a thorough chapter on interfacing 5-volt systems to 3.3-volt Raspberry Pis designed to expand your choice of peripheral options. Ready to go C++ programs involving GPIO and I2C peripherals are provided. This book also explores ADC, DAC, rotary encoders, CMOS shift registers. I2C I/O extenders. What you'll learn: Build simple, low cost input/output interfaces including rotary encoders Interface with 5-volt devices from a 3-volt Raspberry Pi system Apply analog to digital and digital to analog conversions on the Pi Read potentiometers (volume control) from the Pi Determine step, directions, and velocity of a rotary encoder Perform remote interfacing using the I2 PCF8574 chip Work with external CMOS devices like the 74HC595 (in C++) Who this book is for: Students and hobbyists interested in building custom interfaces for their Raspberry Pis.

Design and build hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi

Custom Raspberry Pi Interfaces

The Raspberry Pi is deceptively simple. Plug it in, boot it up, and use it as a personal computer, or attach a million gizmos and modules and invent something new and amazing. Either way, what it can actually do is not simple, and you should know exactly what the Raspberry Pi hardware is all about. Raspberry Pi Hardware Reference, from Mastering the Raspberry Pi, is the hardware guide you need on your desk or workbench. Every detail is covered: from power to memory, from the CPU to working with USB. You'll find all the details about working with both wired and wireless Ethernet, SD cards, and the UART interface. The GPIO chapter is invaluable, covering power budgeting, access, and even small but important details like the correct usage of sudo when working with GPIO pins. You'll also find details about the 1-Wire driver, the I2C bus, and the SPI bus. If you need to know anything about your Raspberry Pi's hardware, you will find it here, in Raspberry Pi Hardware Reference. What you’ll learn How to work with Raspberry Pi power, including adapters and battery requirements Working with header strips and LEDs Working with SDRAM and memory mapping Understanding the CPU Interface details, including USB, UART, and GPIO Who this book is for Raspberry Pi hobbyists who need know all of the details about Raspberry Pi hardware and what Linux files and commands control that hardware. Table of Contents Ch. 1 - The Raspberry Pi Ch. 2 – Figuring Out Power Requirements Ch. 3 - Header Strips, LEDs, and Reset Ch. 4 – Working with Memory Ch. 5 – The CPU and Working with Threads Ch. 6 – USB Power and API Support Ch. 7 – Working with Wired and Wireless Ethernet Ch. 8 - SD Card Storage Ch. 9 – Serial Communication Ch. 10 – GPIO: Your Interface to the Outside World Ch. 11 - 1-Wire Driver Ch. 12 - I2C Bus: The Two Wire Interface Ch. 13 - SPI Bus: Signaling, API, and Testing Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Power Standards Appendix C: Electronics Reference

Raspberry Pi Hardware Reference

You probably already know that the Raspberry Pi is an excellent teaching tool. If you want to teach Linux basics or Python programming or basic electronics, it's a great place to start. But what if you are an electronics engineer or a Linux systems administrator or a very experienced maker? You want to know all of the details and inner working of the Raspberry Pi -- how to (figuratively or maybe even literally) make it get up and dance without wading through basics and introductory material. If you want to get right into the pro-level guts of the Raspberry Pi, complete with schematics, detailed hardware explanations, messing around with runlevels, reporting voltages and temperatures, and recompiling the kernel, then Mastering the Raspberry Pi is just the book you need. Along with all of the thorough explanations of hardware and operating system, you'll also get a variety of project examples and explanations that you can tune for your own project ideas. You'll find yourself turning to Mastering the Raspberry Pi over and over again for both inspiration and reference. Whether you're an electronics professional, an entrepreneurial maker, or just looking for more detailed information on the Raspberry Pi, this is exactly the book for you.

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