Raspberry Pi for dummies

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Raspberry Pi for dummies

Author:

McManus, Sean, 1973- author.

Cook, Mike, author.

Series:

--For dummies.

Summary:

The Raspberry Pi makes it easy to learn about computers and computer programming, and Raspberry Pi For Dummies makes it even easier! Using this extremely affordable and compact computer, you can learn to code in languages like Scratch and Python, explore how electronics work, create computer-generated buildings in Minecraft and music in Sonic Pic, become Linux-savvy, make Internet-of-Things devices, or just play around! This book gets you up and running on your Raspberry Pi, starting with setting it up, downloading the operating system, and using the desktop environment. Then, the only limit is your imagination! It doesn’t matter whether you have a Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, Raspberry Pi Zero W or an older model: we’ve got you covered. Raspberry Pi For Dummies explores the latest technology—the Raspberry Pi 4 and 400, Scratch 3 programming language, new games bundled with the Raspberry Pi, and the hottest Add-Ons out there. This introductory guide is the perfect place to start if you want to get a taste of everything the Raspberry Pi can do! Set up your Raspberry Pi, install the operating system, and connect to the Internet; Learn the basics of the Linux desktop and Linux shell so you can program, work, and play; Use Python, Scratch, and Sonic Pi to write your first programs and make games and digital music; Discover how circuits work hand-in-hand with your Pi. If you want to make the most of the Raspberry Pi for school, work, or play, you’ll love this easy-to-read reference. -- Amazon.com.

General Note:

"Connect the Raspberry Pi and configure the OS ; Create games, explore electronics, make music, and more ; Start programming with Scratch and Python" -- Cover.

Includes index.

Edition:

4th edition.

Contents:

Setting up your Raspberry Pi. Introducing the Raspberry Pi ; Downloading the operating system ; Connecting your Raspberry Pi -- Getting started with Linux. Using the desktop environment ; Using the Linux shell -- Using the Raspberry Pi for both work and play. Being productive with the Raspberry Pi ; Editing photos on the Raspberry Pi with GIMP ; Playing audio and video on the Raspberry Pi -- Programming the Raspberry Pi. Introducing programming with Scratch ; Programming an arcade game using Scratch ; Writing programs in Python ; Creating a game with Python and Pygame Zero ; Programming Minecraft with Python ; Making music with Sonic Pi -- Exploring electronics with the Raspberry Pi. Understanding circuits ; Taking control of your Pi's circuitry ; Lots of multicolored LEDs ; Old McDonald's farm and other RFID adventures -- The part of tens. Ten great software packages for the Raspberry Pi ; Ten inspiring projects for the Raspberry Pi ; Ten great add-ons for the Raspberry Pi -- Appendix: troubleshooting and configuring the Raspberry Pi.

Physical Description:

xv, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Subject Term:

Raspberry Pi (Computer)

Python (Computer program language)

Scratch (Computer program language)

Author(s):

Cook, Mike,

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781119796824

Publication Information:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2021]

Call Number:

004.16 MCMANUS

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A recipe for having fun and getting things done with the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi For Dummies explores the latest technology--the Raspberry Pi 4 and 400, Scratch 3 programming language, new games bundled with the Raspberry Pi, and the hottest Add-Ons out there. This introductory guide is the perfect place to start if you want to get a taste of everything the Raspberry Pi can do!

Set up your Raspberry Pi, install the operating system, and connect to the Internet Learn the basics of the Linux desktop and Linux shell so you can program, work, and play Use Python, Scratch, and Sonic Pi to write your first programs and make games and digital music Discover how circuits work hand-in-hand with your Pi

If you want to make the most of the Raspberry Pi for school, work, or play, you'll love this easy-to-read reference.

Author Notes

Sean McManus is an expert technology and business author. His previous books include Mission Python, Coder Academy, and Cool Scratch Projects in Easy Steps.
Mike Cook is a former professor in physics at Manchester Metropolitan University. His other books include Raspberry Pi Projects and Raspberry Pi Projects For Dummies.

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 1
Foolish Assumptions	p. 2
Icons Used in This Book	p. 3
Beyond the Book	p. 3
Where to Go from Here	p. 4
Part 1 Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi	p. 5
Chapter 1 Introducing the Raspberry Pi	p. 7
Introducing the Raspberry Pi Range	p. 9
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B	p. 9
Raspberry Pi 400	p. 11
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+	p. 12
Raspberry Pi Zero	p. 13
Older models	p. 14
Figuring Out What You Can Do with a Raspberry Pi	p. 17
Getting Your Hands on a Raspberry Pi	p. 18
Determining What Else You Need	p. 18
Essentials	p. 19
Optional extras	p. 22
Chapter 2 Downloading the Operating System	p. 25
Introducing Linux	p. 26
Imaging a microSD Card for Your Raspberry Pi	p. 27
Choosing the Right Operating System for Your Raspberry Pi	p. 29
Chapter 3 Connecting Your Raspberry Pi	p. 33
Connecting Your Raspberry Pi	p. 33
Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi	p. 36
Configuring Your Raspberry Pi in Raspberry Pi OS	p. 37
Changing Your Wi-Fi Settings	p. 40
Configuring Bluetooth Devices	p. 41
Connecting the Raspberry Pi Camera Module	p. 41
Connecting the camera on a Pi Zero	p. 42
Connecting the camera on other Raspberry Pi models	p. 43
Testing the Camera Module	p. 44
Connecting Using SSH	p. 46
Connecting Using VNC	p. 47
Part 2 Getting Started with Linux	p. 49
Chapter 4 Using the Desktop Environment	p. 51
Navigating the Raspberry Pi Desktop	p. 52
Using the Applications menu	p. 52
Running applications that are not on the menu	p. 55
Resizing and closing application windows	p. 55
Using the Task Manager	p. 56
Using File Manager	p. 57
Navigating File Manager	p. 58
Copying and moving files and folders	p. 61
Selecting multiple files and folders	p. 61
Creating new folders and blank files	p. 62
Deleting files and folders	p. 63
Sorting files	p. 63
Exploring your Raspberry Pi	p. 64
Browsing the Web with Chromium	p. 64
Searching within web pages	p. 65
Using tabbed browsing	p. 66
Adding and using bookmarks	p. 66
Protecting your privacy	p. 67
Sending and Receiving Email with Claws Mail	p. 68
Using the Image Viewer	p. 68
Using the Text Editor	p. 71
Configuring Printers	p. 72
Customizing the Desktop	p. 72
Playing the Games	p. 72
Finding and Installing New Applications	p. 75
Backing Up Your Data	p. 76
Logging Out and Shutting Down	p. 77
Chapter 5 Using the Linux Shell	p. 79
Understanding the Prompt	p. 80
Exploring Your Linux System	p. 81
Listing files and directories	p. 81
Changing directories	p. 81
Changing to the parent directory	p. 82
Understanding the directory tree	p. 82
Using relative and absolute paths	p. 85
Checking file types	p. 88
Investigating more advanced listing options	p. 89
Understanding the Long Listing Format and Permissions	p. 91
Slowing Down the Listing and Reading Files with the Less Command	p. 94
Speeding Up Entering Commands	p. 95
Using Redirection to Create Files	p. 96
Creating Directories	p. 98
Deleting Files	p. 99
Using Wildcards to Select Multiple Files	p. 101
Removing Directories	p. 103
Copying and Renaming Files	p. 104
Finding Files on Your Raspberry Pi	p. 106
Installing and Managing Software on Your Raspberry Pi	p. 106
Updating the cache	p. 107
Finding the package name	p. 107
Installing software	p. 108
Running software	p. 109
Upgrading the software	p. 109
Removing software and freeing up space	p. 110
Finding out what's installed	p. 111
Managing User Accounts on Your Raspberry Pi	p. 112
Learning More about Linux Commands	p. 114
Customizing the Shell with Your Own Linux Commands	p. 116
Shutting Down and Rebooting Your Raspberry Pi	p. 117
Part 3 Using the Raspberry Pi for both Work and Play	p. 119
Chapter 6 Being Productive with the Raspberry Pi	p. 121
Installing LibreOffice on Your Raspberry Pi	p. 122
Working with LibreOffice on the Raspberry Pi	p. 122
Saving your work	p. 123
Writing letters in LibreOffice Writer	p. 123
Managing your budget in LibreOffice Calc	p. 125
Creating presentations in LibreOffice Impress	p. 128
Creating a party invitation with LibreOffice Draw	p. 130
Chapter 7 Editing Photos on the Raspberry Pi with GIMP	p. 133
Working with GIMP	p. 134
Understanding the GIMP screen layout	p. 134
Resizing an image in GIMP	p. 136
Cropping your photo	p. 137
Rotating and flipping your photo	p. 138
Adjusting the colors	p. 139
Fixing imperfections	p. 139
Converting images between different formats	p. 141
Finding Out More about GIMP	p. 141
Chapter 8 Playing Audio and Video on the Raspberry Pi	p. 143
Setting Up Your Media Center	p. 143
Navigating the Media Center	p. 144
Adding Media	p. 145
Adding music	p. 146
Adding videos	p. 147
Adding pictures	p. 148
Streaming media	p. 148
Enjoying Your Media	p. 149
Playing music	p. 149
Playing videos	p. 150
Viewing photos	p. 150
Changing the Settings	p. 151
Using a Remote Control	p. 151
Turning Off Your Media Center	p. 152
Playing Music in the Desktop Environment	p. 152
Part 4 Programming the Raspberry Pi	p. 155
Chapter 9 Introducing Programming with Scratch	p. 157
Understanding What Programming Is	p. 158
Working with Scratch	p. 158
Understanding the Scratch screen layout	p. 159
Making your sprite move	p. 160
Creating scripts	p. 165
Changing your sprite's appearance	p. 165
Adding sounds and music	p. 170
Using the Wait block to slow down your sprite	p. 172
Using extensions in Scratch	p. 173
Saving your work	p. 175
Chapter 10 Programming an Arcade Game Using Scratch	p. 177
Starting a New Scratch Project and Deleting Sprites	p. 178
Changing the Backdrop	p. 178
Adding Sprites to Your Game	p. 179
Drawing Sprites in Scratch	p. 180
Naming Your Sprites	p. 184
Controlling When Scripts Run	p. 184
Using the green flag to start scripts	p. 185
Using the Forever Control block	p. 186
Enabling keyboard control of a sprite	p. 186
Enabling a sprite to control another sprite	p. 188
Using Random Numbers	p. 190
Detecting When a Sprite Hits Another Sprite	p. 191
Introducing Variables	p. 192
Making Sprites Move Automatically	p. 194
Fixing the Final Bug	p. 195
Adding Scripts to the Stage	p. 198
Duplicating Sprites	p. 198
Playing Your Game	p. 198
Adapting the Game's Difficulty	p. 199
Taking It Further with Scratch	p. 199
Chapter 11 Writing Programs in Python	p. 201
Working with Python	p. 202
Entering your first Python commands	p. 202
Using the shell to calculate sums	p. 204
Creating the Times Tables Program	p. 206
Creating and running your first Python program	p. 206
Using variables	p. 208
Accepting user input	p. 209
Printing words, variables, and numbers together	p. 210
Using for loops to repeat	p. 211
Creating the Chatbot Program	p. 215
Introducing lists	p. 216
Using lists to make a random chat program	p. 218
Adding a while loop	p. 221
Using a loop to force a reply from the user	p. 222
Using dictionaries	p. 223
Creating your own functions	p. 225
Creating the dictionary look-up function	p. 227
Creating the main conversation loop	p. 229
Final thoughts on Chatbot	p. 230
The final Chatbot program	p. 231
Chapter 12 Creating a Game with Python and Pygame Zero	p. 233
Collecting Your Sounds and Images	p. 234
Setting Up Your Folders	p. 235
Creating and Running Your First Program	p. 235
Detecting mouse clicks	p. 238
Animating your actors	p. 239
Using random numbers	p. 241
Adding more clouds	p. 242
Making the clouds regenerate	p. 244
Enabling multiple clouds to be clicked	p. 245
Adding the timer	p. 246
Adjusting the game difficulty	p. 247
The final game listing	p. 247
Exploring Pygame Zero Further	p. 249
Chapter 13 Programming Minecraft with Python	p. 251
Playing Minecraft	p. 252
Moving around	p. 253
Making and breaking things	p. 253
Preparing for Python	p. 254
Using the Minecraft Module	p. 255
Understanding coordinates in Minecraft	p. 256
Repositioning the player	p. 256
Adding blocks	p. 257
Stopping the player from changing the world	p. 259
Setting the maze parameters	p. 259
Laying the foundations	p. 261
Placing the maze walls	p. 262
Understanding the maze algorithm	p. 263
Setting up the variables and lists	p. 264
Creating the functions	p. 265
Creating the main loop	p. 266
Adding a ceiling	p. 268
Positioning the player	p. 269
The final code	p. 269
Adapting the Program	p. 273
Chapter 14 Making Music with Sonic Pi	p. 275
Understanding the Sonic Pi Screen Layout	p. 276
Playing Your First Notes	p. 277
Using Note and Chord Names	p. 279
Playing Timed Patterns	p. 280
Composing Random Tunes Using Shuffle	p. 281
Changing the Random Number Seed	p. 282
Using List Names in Your Programs	p. 282
Playing Random Notes	p. 282
Experimenting with Live Loops	p. 283
Using Samples	p. 285
Adding Special Effects	p. 286
Synchronizing with Your Drumbeat	p. 287
Bringing It All Together	p. 287
Next Steps with Sonic Pi	p. 289
Part 5 Exploring Electronics with the Raspberry Pi	p. 291
Chapter 15 Understanding Circuits	p. 293
Discovering What a Circuit Is	p. 294
Understanding the nature of electricity	p. 294
Determining how a component needs to be treated	p. 303
Getting Familiar with the GPIO	p. 304
Putting the general purpose in GPIO	p. 306
Understanding what GPlOs do	p. 306
Putting an output pin to practical use	p. 307
Using GPIOs as inputs	p. 309
Learning which end is hot: Getting to grips with a soldering iron	p. 311
Making a soldered joint	p. 313
Looking at Ready-Made Add-On Boards	p. 314
The Sense HAT	p. 315
The Trill sensors	p. 315
The LED SHIM	p. 316
Other boards	p. 317
Chapter 14 Taking Control of Your Pi's Circuitry	p. 319
Accessing Raspberry Pi's GPIO Pins	p. 319
Soldering the GPIO pins onto Pi Zero or Pi ZeroW	p. 321
Getting at all the pins with one connector	p. 322
Connecting things together	p. 324
Your First Circuit	p. 325
Bringing your LED to life	p. 326
Using Scratch 3.0	p. 326
Control the flashing speed with an input	p. 328
Using Python	p. 330
Using GPIO ZERO	p. 332
Starting Out with a Dice Display	p. 336
A dice display	p. 336
The project	p. 339
The numbers	p. 339
The display	p. 340
Taking it further	p. 345
Pedestrian Crossing	p. 346
The Pedestrian Crossing hardware	p. 349
The Pedestrian Crossing software	p. 350
Taking it further	p. 354
Chapter 17 Lots of Multicolored LEDs	p. 357
Making Colors	p. 359
Using diffusers	p. 359
Making more colors	p. 360
The Way Forward	p. 362
Bit-banging the APA102C protocol	p. 365
Creating a class	p. 367
Rainbow Invaders	p. 371
Keepy Uppy	p. 376
LEDs Galore	p. 379
Current limits	p. 379
Signals and memory	p. 380
Display update	p. 381
Getting more LEDs	p. 381
Chapter 18 Old McDonald's Farm and Other RFID Adventures	p. 391
How RFID Work	p. 392
A MIFARE card's structure	p. 395
A simple RFID jukebox	p. 398
A better RFID jukebox	p. 399
Taking it further	p. 403
Dressing Up a Paper Doll	p. 403
Runway time	p. 408
Old McDonald's Farm	p. 412
Making sound samples	p. 412
Making the graphics	p. 415
Part 6 The Part of Tens	p. 425
Chapter 19 Ten Great Software Packages for the Raspberry Pi	p. 427
Penguins Puzzle	p. 428
FocusWriter	p. 429
Mathematica	p. 429
Fraqtive	p. 431
Tux Paint	p. 432
Grisbi	p. 433
Beneath a Steel Sky	p. 433
Brain Party	p. 434
Pure Data	p. 435
Inkscape	p. 437
Chapter 20 Ten Inspiring Projects for the Raspberry Pi	p. 439
One-Button Audiobook Player	p. 439
Heartbeat Monitor	p. 440
Smart Fridge	p. 440
The Next Verse	p. 441
Electric Skateboard	p. 441
T-Shirt Cannon	p. 442
Magic Mirror	p. 442
Pi in the Sky	p. 443
Raspberry Turk	p. 444
Sound Fighter	p. 445
Chapter 21 Ten Great Add-Ons for the Raspberry Pi	p. 447
Picade	p. 448
CamJam EduKit 3	p. 449
Piano HAT	p. 450
Rainbow HAT	p. 451
Display-O-Tron HAT	p. 451
Flick	p. 451
Unicorn HAT HD	p. 452
Inky pHAT	p. 452
Pirate Audio	p. 452
Witty Pi	p. 453
Appendix: Troubleshooting and Configuring the Raspberry Pi	p. 455
Index	p. 467

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