Innovative project ideas

“Building projects is the best way to learn a technology, period.”

This is the motto I believe in. Learning a technology is not just about theory. You can read more than 100 books on a single piece of technology but to master it, you have to have hands-on experience in working with that technology. This helps you not only understand the nitty gritty details but also learn new things that you have to pick up while building a project:

Figure 8.1 – It all starts with an idea!

The projects chosen in this book were handpicked by me as I built them when I was first getting familiar with Raspberry Pi. We will cover two very popular project ideas that you can build to further expand your knowledge of Pi and the MQTT communication protocol.

Please note that this section only provides an overview of these ideas; you will have to research yourself and build them, which is how you will learn and master various technological...