Raspberry Pi Cookbook for Python Programmers

This is an excellent book for people interested in doing cool things with their Raspberry Pi. Although the title describes it as being geared for Python Programmers, I come from a general programming background and found the tutorials simple to follow. Python is a pretty intuitive language for anyone who has done moderate coding in java, perl, TK, etc.I loved the example code introducing me to OpenGL programming on the Raspberry Pi.This book came across my dashboard while browsing for Raspberry Pi books at the Austin Public Library. I put a hold on it and within a couple of months, it fell into my hands. After running through the OpenGL stuff, I realized this was going to be a valuable programming book for my personal collection, so I returned it to the Austin Library and bought the Kindle version.I wanted to get this review out there so people would know the Kindle version is top notch. This is not one of those crummy Kindle technical books that was scanned from hardcopy. The screenshots are properly captured and the code formats well. If you're considering getting the Kindle version, I can assure you it is on par with the best of technical Kindle releases.

This book made me fall in love with my Raspberry Pi all over again. It is laid out well and is easy to follow. The code gets a little over my head in some places, but I can just "fake it 'til I make it" and the code works. Thank you for having something more on serial communication than just a few lines. The camera stuff is next on the To Do List. I think this should be the second book after Getting Started with Raspberry Pi.

One of the best books on Raspberry Pi projects. Some very different projects of value to users. i.e good program on a camera module GUI - to preview and take a photo with a shutter button. ) I am using this with a multi camera system on a microscope and self view. The downloaded script for the projects makes it easy to use.

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Finally! Hands down one of my most important raspberry pi books.

Good book

This is by far the best book I read on Raspberry Pi, presenting a lot of interesting projects ranging from creating 3D games, publishing in the cloud sensory data, using camera to view at a remote site, building robots controlled by RPi, controlling a LED matrix to display words, and so on. This book requires I would say one a beginner's level knowledge of electronics, which even I have. And I guess that people that are better in electronics would appreciate the simpler programming alternative offered by Python and the many programming resources available on the Internet. Some concrete comments on the chapter: - regarding Chapter 10, I know somebody who worked on a similar project with an LED matrix for an industrial clock (see details at http://www.omega-it.ro/products/smartclock/SmartClock.pdf); - regarding Chapter 7, myself I was interested in publishing sensor data with RPi and I was very glad to see an extensive chapter on how to collect data and how to publish them on online services like Xively, etc, in order to view them later. Note there is also another project, DaisyPi, available at http://daisypi.ro/, which creates an extensive sensing device out of RPi. There are a few other interesting applications I didn't see in the book and I am very much interested in getting more info on: - transforming your TV in a SmartTV I found it a great value-added extension, only by buying the ~70 Euros RPi device. See http://www.robofun.ro/raspberry-pi-si-componente/kit-smarttv-raspberry-pi for more information. - using an USB TV Tuner with RPi in order to capture signal from a professional analogue surveillance camera (or to watch TV channels on a TV to which RPi is connected to.) Aside from that, I am happy to see Python becoming more and more of a RAD (Rapid Application Dev) systems language. On a side note, there is also the "Mobile Python" book (http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Python-prototyping-applications-platform/dp/0470515058) which is really great, and one of the first. And the list can continue. I was already familiar with books on Open Hardware platforms, like Arduino. While Arduino uses a microcontroller (making it more low power than RPi and able to use analogue sensors, etc), RPi is basically a small computer (embedded platform) based on an ARM processor able to run Linux, connect to the Internet, capture a camera stream and process it, etc. There are other open boards these days: Olimex Olinuxino (which is more industrial and even if it claims to be even more open platform that RPi it lacks the many users and resources RPi has on the Internet), Intel Galileo, etc.

If you have a Raspberry Pi, the like hood of you being an computer enthusiast is really high, then I would strongly suggest this book to take a step further and take to the limits the power of this bare bone computer.Although the learning curve this book offers is considerably pronounced (preferred reader with previous programming knowledge), Python is an easy language to pickup, with a comprehensive number of examples and line-by-line explanation of what is going on during execution, this book will guide you from a simple “hello world” to a 3D environment using the library pi3D.But it is not just about the software, it also helps you to understand the Raspberry Pi hardware in order to interact with leds, diodes, resistors or motors and have them under your full control. But a led gets boring quite easy, what about a Camera, or a robot bridged by a Microcontroller and controlled using a python scrip. Possibilities are endless.I barely have downsides for this book apart from the hardware acquisitions that must be done, but of course, the author has an appendix with all those devices and where to get them.

Really rather good! Many interesting projects, with each piece of code well explained. Lots of stuff on interfacing to the Real World (which is perhaps what the Rapsberry Pi is all about).The book assumes you are a little way off the starting line with computers and electronics in general, so don't consider it as your primary referrence if you are an absolute beginner.As is often the case in this fast-moving world, the first (April 2014) edition is already a little out of date, as all the projects are based around the earlier Pi models, prior to the release of the now standard 40-pin IO header. This is no big deal, however. The book is foward-looking, though, in that all the code examples are based around Python3, and not Python2.All the code examples are downloadable from the publisher's website.Not cheap, but I'd recomend this book to people who'd like to have a go at building real projects. I find myslef dipping in and out of it - like a cookbook!

Good book, easy to read complete with helpful code. I would recommend this volume to anyone wanting to hack with a Pi

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Excellent publication, very pleased

Good beginers reference