Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist and video producer. He's a contributor to MAKE magazine and Makezine.com. Matt is also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera, a camera which outputs a text description of a scene instead of a photo. He also created The Enough Already, a DIY celebrity-silencing device. Matt's work has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, New York Magazine and has also been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art and at the Santorini Bienniele. He is currently a Master's candidate at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Shawn Wallace is an editor at O'Reilly and lives in Providence, RI. He is also a member of the Fluxama artist collective responsible for new iOS musical instruments such as Noisemusick and Doctor Om. He designed open hardware kits at Modern Device and taught the Fab Academy at the Providence Fab Lab. For years he was the managing director of the AS220 art space and is a cofounder of the SMT Computing Society

Chapter 1Getting Up and Running
A Tour of the Boards
The Proper Peripherals
The Case
Choose Your Distribution
Flash the SD Card
Booting Up
Configuring Your Pi
Shutting Down
Troubleshooting
Going Further
Chapter 2Getting Around Linux on the Raspberry Pi
Using the Command Line
More Linux Commands
/etc
Setting the Date and Time
Installing New Software
Sound In Linux
Upgrading Your Firmware
Going Further
Chapter 3Specialized Distributions
Distributions for Home Theater
Distributions for Music
Hardware Hacking with Occidentalis
Retrocomputing and Retrogaming
Other Useful Distributions
Going Further
Chapter 4Python On The Pi
Hello Python
A Bit More Python
Objects and Modules
Even More Modules
Launching Other Programs From Python
Troubleshooting Errors
Going Further
Chapter 5Pygame for Animation and Multimedia
Hello Pygame
Pygame Surfaces
Drawing on Surfaces
Handling Events and Inputs
Sprites
Playing Sound
Playing Video
Further Reading
Chapter 6Scratch on the Pi
Hello Scratch
The Stage
Two More Things to Know About Sprites
A Bigger Example: Astral Trespassers
Scratch and the Real World
Sharing Your Programs
Going Further
Chapter 7Arduino and the Pi
Installing Arduino in Raspbian
Talking in Serial
Using Firmata
Going Further
Chapter 8Basic Input and Output
Using Inputs and Outputs
Project: Cron Lamp Timer
Going Further
Chapter 9Programming Inputs and Outputs with Python
Installing and Testing GPIO in Python
Blinking an LED
Reading a Button
Project: Simple Soundboard
Going Further
Chapter 10Analog Input and Output
Output: Converting Digital to Analog
Input: Converting Analog to Digital
Chapter 11Working with Cameras
Connecting and Testing the Camera Module
Testing USB Webcams
Installing and Testing SimpleCV
Displaying an Image
Modifying an Image
Accessing the Webcam
Face Detection
Project: Raspberry Pi Photobooth
Going Further
Chapter 12Python and The Internet
Download Data from a Web Server
Serving Pi (Be a Web Server)
Connecting the Web to the Real World
Project: WebLamp
Going Further
Appendix Writing an SD Card Image
Writing an SD card from OS X
Writing an SD card from Windows
Writing an SD card from Linux