You're reading from Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero Get started with the smallest, cheapest, and highest-utility Pi everâ€”Raspberry Pi Zero

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Published in Mar 2016

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ISBN-13 9781786469465

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Python

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Raspberry Pi

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Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero

2. Programming Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER

3. Accessing the GPIO Pins on Raspberry Pi Zero

4. Building and Controlling a Simple Wheeled Robot

5. Building a Robot That Can Walk

6. Adding Voice Recognition and Speech – A Voice Activated Robot

7. Adding Raspberry Pi Zero to an RC Vehicle

8. Playing Rock, Paper, or Scissors with Raspberry Pi Zero

9. Adding Raspberry Pi Zero to a Quadcopter

Index

Creating and running Python programs

Now that you are ready to begin programming, you'll need to choose a language. There are many available, such as C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, and a great deal of other possibilities. I'm going to initially introduce you to Python for two reasons: it is a simple language that is intuitive and very easy to use, and it uses a lot of the open source functionality of the robotics world. We'll also cover a bit of C/C++ in this chapter, as some features are only available in C/C++. However, it makes sense to start with Python. To work through the examples in this section, you'll need a version of Python installed. Fortunately, the basic Raspbian system has one already, so you are ready to begin.

We are only going to cover some of the very basic concepts here. If you are new to programming, there are a number of different websites that provide interactive tutorials. If you'd like to practice some of the basic programming concepts in Python...

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Authors (1)

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.

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