Book description
With more than 60 practical and creative hacks, this book helps you turn Raspberry Pi into the centerpiece of some cool electronics projects. Want to create a controller for a camera or a robot? Set up Linux distributions for media centers or PBX phone systems? That’s just the beginning of what you’ll find inside Raspberry Pi Hacks.
If you’re looking to build either a software or hardware project with more computing power than Arduino alone can provide, Raspberry Pi is just the ticket. And the hacks in this book will give you lots of great ideas.
- Use configuration hacks to get more out of your Pi
- Build your own web server or remote print server
- Take the Pi outdoors to monitor your garden or control holiday lights
- Connect with SETI or construct an awesome Halloween costume
- Hack the Pi’s Linux OS to support more complex projects
- Decode audio/video formats or make your own music player
- Achieve a low-weight payload for aerial photography
- Build a Pi computer cluster or a solar-powered lab
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
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1. Configuration Hacks
- Hack 1. Choose and Format the Right SD Card
- Hack 2. Mount the SD Card
- Hack 3. Decode the LEDs
- Hack 4. Update the Firmware
- Hack 5. Monitor the Raspberry Pi Hardware
- Hack 6. Overclock Your Pi
- Hack 7. Overvolt for Higher Performance
- Hack 8. Get More USB Ports
- Hack 9. Troubleshoot Power Problems
- Hack 10. Unbreak Your Raspberry Pi
- Hack 11. Go Headless
- Hack 12. Connect with SSH
- Hack 13. Give Your Pi a Static IP Address
- Hack 14. Learn to Speak GPIO
- Hack 15. Connect GPIO Pins to a Breadboard
- Hack 16. Add a USB Serial Console
- Hack 17. Add a Reset Button
- Hack 18. Get Power to the Pi on the Move
- Hack 19. Test Your Might (in Volts)
- Hack 20. Add Additional Memory with Swap
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2. Hacking Linux for the Raspberry Pi
- Hack 21. Build a Cross-Compiler Toolchain
- Hack 22. Build a Custom Kernel
- Hack 23. Update to the Latest Prebuilt Kernel
- Hack 24. Split Memory Between the GPU and Linux Userspace
- Hack 25. Update the Firmware and Prebuilt Binary Kernel the Easy Way
- Hack 26. Emulate the Pi
- Hack 27. Try Occidentalis: The Raspberry Pi Distro for (Advanced) Education
- Hack 28. Monitor the Pi’s IP Address
- Hack 29. Run Android on the Raspberry Pi
- 3. Raspberry Pi Around the House
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4. Hacking the Outdoors
- Hack 37. Tell the Temperature Outside (Without Going Out There)
- Hack 38. Check on Your Plants
- Hack 39. Make Your Pi Water-Resistant (with a Case)
- Hack 40. Make Your Pi Water-Resistant (Without a Case)
- Hack 41. Find Geocaches from Your Car
- Hack 42. See the Light
- Hack 43. Listen to Aircraft Transponders
- Hack 44. Control Aerial Photography
- Hack 45. Have the Best Holiday Lights Display
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5. Multimedia Hacks
- Hack 46. Play Video Files
- Hack 47. Enable Additional Video Codecs
- Hack 48. Build a Pi MusicBox
- Hack 49. Turn Your Pi into a Radio
- Hack 50. Control the Pi via Touchscreen
- Hack 51. Emulate Classic Video Game Consoles
- Hack 52. Connect a DSLR
- Hack 53. Set Up a Photobooth
- Hack 54. Turn Your Pi into a Tiny Media Center
- Hack 55. Watch Movies in the Backseat of Your Car
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6. Extend Your Pi
- Hack 56. Control GPIO from a Web Browser
- Hack 57. Add a Tiny Screen
- Hack 58. Connect Arduino Shields to Your Raspberry Pi
- Hack 59. Control a 3D Printer
- Hack 60. Add a Numeric Keypad
- Hack 61. Add a Heat Sink
- Hack 62. Enable the Raspberry Pi Camera on Pidora
- Hack 63. Build a Solar-Powered Lab
- Hack 64. Build a MIDI Controller (on the Cheap!)
- Hack 65. Build a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Raspberry Pi Hacks
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449362317
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