Raspberry Pi Projects

Introduction 1A History of Making 1Consumer Computing 2Why Everyone Should Learn About Computing 2Enter the Raspberry Pi 3About This Book 4How to Use Th is Book 4The Future 6Part I: Getting Started with the Raspberry PiCHAPTER 1 Getting Your Raspberry Pi Up and Running 9The Operating System 10Connecting Your Raspberry Pi 16The Boot Process 25Starting the Graphical Desktop 26Starting a Terminal under X 26Troubleshooting 26Let the Fun Begin! 28CHAPTER 2 Introductory Software Project: The Insult Generator 29Running Your First Python Program 30Saving Your Program 33Generating an Insult 36Insult Your Friends by Name! 39Create a Stream of Insults! 41Putting It All Together 45Part II: Software ProjectsCHAPTER 3 Tic-Tac-Toe 49Errors 50Making a Start 51A Two-Player Game 55Getting the Computer to Play 59Over to You 70CHAPTER 4 Here's the News 71Early Teleprompters 72The Pi Prompter 73What You Need to Do 73A Step Closer to a Usable Program 78Your Final Pi Prompter Code 84The Physical Setup for Your Prompter 89Over to You 92CHAPTER 5 Ping 93Early Commercial Products 94The Ping Game 94Improving the Ping Game 99A Single-Player Game 104A Two-Player Game 111Over to You 118CHAPTER 6 Pie Man 121The Pie Man Game 122Gather Your Resources 123Setting the Stage 127The Game Action 133Drawing the Screen 141The Final Function 144Over to You 150CHAPTER 7 Minecraft Maze Maker 151Installing Minecraft 152Starting Minecraft 153Playing Minecraft 154Preparing for Python 156Using the Minecraft Module 156Over to You 174Part III: Hardware ProjectsCHAPTER 8 Colour Snap 177Implementing the Game 178The Software for Testing the Game 193The Software for the Game 196Over to You 202CHAPTER 9 Test Your Reactions 203Welcome to the Embedded World! 204Obtaining Components 205Setting up PiFace Digital 206Connecting PiFace Digital 210Using the Emulator 210Interfacing with Python 211The Reaction Timer 214What Will You Interface? 226CHAPTER 10 The Twittering Toy 227Hacking the Toy 228Making It Talk 232Making It Move