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Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Ruth Suehle (Author), Tom Callaway (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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
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    December 9, 2013
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Tom Callaway is the Fedora Engineering Manager at Red Hat, where he has worked since 2001. He has been active with Fedora since its creation and currently serves as the Fedora Packaging Committee Chair, responsible for defining the standards that Fedora uses to keep its package quality high. He also maintains 300+ packages in Fedora, which may also mean he is legally insane. He enjoys pinball, gaming, sci-fi, frogs, geocaching, traveling, and causing trouble with his wife Pam and son Jimmy.

Ruth Suehle works in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which aims to help upstream open source software communities. She also leads the Fedora Project's marketing team. Previously an editor for Red Hat Magazine, she now leads discussions about open source principles as a moderator at opensource.com. Ruth is also a core contributor to Wired's GeekMom blog, where she covers the adventures of motherhood alongside technology and sci-fi.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KBAS0CE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (December 9, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11940 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 553 pages
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

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    Tom Callaway is the Fedora Engineering Manager at Red Hat, where he has worked since 2001. He has been active with Fedora since its creation and currently serves as the Fedora Packaging Committee Chair, responsible for defining the standards that Fedora uses to keep its package quality high. He also maintains 300+ packages in Fedora, which may also mean he is legally insane. In his spare time, he enjoys pinball, geocaching, gaming, science fiction, warm beaches, clever hacks, comics, friendly yellow ducks, 3d printing, road trips, hockey, and causing trouble with his wife Pam and sons Jimmy & Danny.

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    Ruth Suehle manages the community leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities. She also leads the Fedora Project's marketing team. Previously an editor for Red Hat Magazine, she now leads discussions about open source principles as a moderator at opensource.com. Ruth is also a senior editor at GeekMom.com, where she covers the adventures of motherhood alongside technology and sci-fi.

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Mainframe
5.0 out of 5 stars Your Second Raspberry Pi Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014
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I tend to collect books on subjects that I'm interested in, particularly those that have content that I can't find anywhere else, even if it's just a single chapter. This book is chock full of those chapters. My intro Raspberry Pi books were great to get me up and running, but this is the book that taught me a lot more of the lower-level stuff that I needed to know. On top of that, it gives little excerpts about history and how certain names/components came to be. Can't recommend this enough, and if you're looking for your next book, Hacking Electronics by Simon Monk is a surefire bet.
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Brian Connors
4.0 out of 5 stars "What now" redux
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014
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When I reviewed  Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius  a while back, I considered it a necessary addition to any RPi hackers library. This too serves a similar purpose, with a lot more material, presented by two people involved in Fedora Linux. While Pidora seems to lag behind the RPi OS pack overall, this doesn't get in the way of doing a very effective job of giving you many, many projects of both traditional and physical computing natures.

Some of what's in here is pretty oldschool - people have been running Asterisk PBXes for a long time and the process isn't appreciably different on the Pi. Some of the projects do address some needs unique to the RPi and its market space; for example, there's extensive instructions on building a GCC cross-compiler toolchain to get around the long compile times for work done on the Pi itself. It also makes instructions available for some common second-computer uses like arcade emulation and (one of the RPi's most popular uses) media computing.

But what you came for are the things that the Pi is especially good for - portability and physical computing. It delivers quite effectively too; controlling a camera via gphoto, for example, or a car-mounted geocache tracker with an off-the-shelf GPS module, or controlling a 3D printer, or even something as mundane as a plant waterer. There's even some truly off-the-wall stuff like waterproofing the board with a hydrophobic paint from Rustoleum.

It does come up a bit short in some ways, though; while it's largely distro-agnostic and makes some use of Adafruit's Occidentalis distro for some physical computing projects, it pretty much ignores RISCOS entirely. And for some reason the software radio receiver project doesn't have a transmitter companion. Other than that, though, this is a must-purchase for anyone who wants to do more than noodle around in Scratch or Python.
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Zoinks!
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book for exploring the RPi
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2015
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Fun book for exploring different Raspberry Pi projects, and getting a crash course in its use. I enjoyed the book so much I read it in one sitting. If you have a RPi and don't know what do with it... buy this book. It will give you lots of ideas.
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Timothy Kekeis
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting ideas
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014
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My only issue with this items was not realizing it wasn't available when I ordered it in May and finally got it in Jan. The book so far is an easy read with some interesting ideas I had not though of. If your into Raspberry Pi, I think this book will provide both some help and ideas of things you can do with your computer.
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Fred Jones
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but showing it's age
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2014
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Good information, however if you're using a B+ Pi or higher then a lot of this book is outdated. It refers to many products from Adafruit that you'll need to purchase for about 1/3 the hacks. I would highly recommend you use the Amazon rental for this one, since you probably won't be using many of these techniques.
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Arthur F. Lange
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Raspberry Pi books!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014
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Raspberry Pi hacks has a lot if information about using many of the features and their limitations of our well designed linix machine. It has provided me with many insights to the design, and reveals why the Pi has been so wildly popular.
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Raymond Pfaff
4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2014
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Good for people new to Raspberry Pi hacking. To be honest, pretty much everything in here can be found on hackaday or the instructables sites.
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Bradford T. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Raspberry Pi Hacks is a great book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2014
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This book is well written for the experimenter audience. It has great projects and fills you in on the details behind the projects. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has a Raspberry Pi.
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blown
4.0 out of 5 stars libro muy interesante
Reviewed in Spain on May 1, 2017
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Libro sobre la raspberry Pi, lleno de proyectos prácticos y muy interesante, si eres un apasionado de la tecnología como yo, este libro no te va a defraudar, es un libro totalmente práctico y con el que sacarás mucho jugo a tu tarjeta raspberry pi.
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Dan Vatnik
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2014
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Has a great amount of projects that include no extra hardware. Some others require some very specific stuff.
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Mr. A. G. Laws
4.0 out of 5 stars If you've had your pi for a while and are looking for the next step, then this is the book for you...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2014
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I have to say that I loved this book from the first moment. Every other pi book spends a significant amount of space telling you how to set your pi up...after a while when you've got the pi distro you want along with the wireless, headless set-up it's time to look for the next step. This book delivers it!

It is one of those books that makes you want to do the stuff they're talking about. I found the final chapters the most inspirational, so now I'm looking for some money to launch a high-altitude pi controlled balloon, to build a supercomputer and I found myself checking out the solar-powered stuff today. While this is under way I'll tinker with the other hacks, FM radio...love it.

All-in-all, a great buy, I'm looking forward to the next in the series....
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Chris Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but limited in some ways
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2017
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Its a good book with some really nice little examples to follow and build up knowledge it sits somewhere between a beginner and moderate Python skills, good for learning but like most books is limited in its ability to extend knowledge.
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Doc
4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful! Many of the 'hacks' are applicable to Linux ...
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2016
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Very useful! Many of the 'hacks' are applicable to Linux in general.
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