Chapter 1. Meet Raspberry Pi
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to
- Set up your Raspberry Pi
- Install an operating system—Raspbian—on your Pi
- Find and open applications
- Write your first bit of code in Python
What kinds of things do you think you can do with a Raspberry Pi?
1. Play games.
2. Watch videos.
3. Create a video game.
4. Listen to music.
5. Make a sound mixer for a dance party.
6. Build a robot.
Believe it or not, these are all projects you can do yourself, and if you learn to program in Python, the sky is the limit. You can achieve quite a lot on your Pi, as long as you can write a program to do it. But before we talk about that, let’s take a look at a Raspberry Pi and discover what makes it tick.
What ...
Get Hello Raspberry Pi! now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
