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Published inMar 2016
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Andrew K. Dennis
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Andrew K. Dennis is a full stack and cybersecurity architect with over 17 years' experience who currently works for Modus Create in Reston, VA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in software engineering and creative computing and a master's degree in information security. Andy has worked in the US, Canada, and the UK in software engineering, e-learning, data science, and cybersecurity across his career, and has written four books on IoT, the Raspberry Pi, and supercomputing. His interests range from the application of pataphysics in computing to security threat modeling. Andy lives in New England and is an organizer of Security BSides CT.
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In this chapter we explored some example programs that leverage the power of the Raspberry Pi 2's GPU.

Following this we delved into the framebuffer. Using the C programming language, we wrote a number of applications that used the framebuffer and memory to paint the screen a different color and to render lines upon it.

We ended with a brief discussion on polygons and methods for rendering both 2D and 3D shapes.

In the next chapter we will experiment with the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins and learn how we can interact with other electronic components connected to our device.

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Andrew K. Dennis

Andrew K. Dennis is a full stack and cybersecurity architect with over 17 years' experience who currently works for Modus Create in Reston, VA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in software engineering and creative computing and a master's degree in information security. Andy has worked in the US, Canada, and the UK in software engineering, e-learning, data science, and cybersecurity across his career, and has written four books on IoT, the Raspberry Pi, and supercomputing. His interests range from the application of pataphysics in computing to security threat modeling. Andy lives in New England and is an organizer of Security BSides CT.
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