Advanced Raspberry Pi

Warren Gay has been an electronics enthusiast since childhood and often dragged discarded TV sets home after school. In high school he learned to program the IBM-1130 and then pursued a career in software development at Ryerson Polytechnical, in Toronto. Since then he has worked professionally for over 30 years, mainly in C/C++, under Unix and Linux. Meanwhile, the love of electronics has never faded since the early creation of his home-brewed Intel 8008 system in the 70's to the present day projects employing the Raspberry Pi. Warren also holds an advanced amateur radio license and was able to work the Mir space station (U2MIR) using packet radio in August 1991.He's authored other books including Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours, Linux Socket Programming by Example, and Advanced Unix Programming.

Ch. 1 - The Raspberry Pi


Ch. 2 - Preparation

Ch. 3 - Power


Ch. 4 - LEDs and Header Strips

Ch. 5 - SDRAM

Ch. 6 - CPU

Ch. 7 - USB

Ch. 8 - Ethernet

Ch. 9 - SD Card Storage

Ch. 10 - UART

Ch. 11 - GPIO Hardware

Ch. 12 - Sysfs GPIO

Ch. 13 - C Program Direct GPIO

Ch. 14 - 1-Wire Driver

Ch. 15 - I2C Bus

Ch. 16 - SPI Bus

Ch. 17 - Boot


Ch. 18 - vcgencmd


Ch. 19 - Linex Console and Pi Zero

Ch. 20 - Cross-Compiling

Ch. 21 - Cross-Compiling the Kernel


Ch. 22 - DHT11 Sensor


Ch. 23 - Nunchuk Mouse


Ch. 24 - LCD HDMI Display

Ch. 25 - Real-Time Clock

Ch. 26 - Pi Camera

Appendix A - Power Standards

Appendix B: Electronics Reference

“This book gives lots of important technical and practical explanations, examples, code listings, and advice; for those working with Pi, it seems to be a compulsory and mandatory book. Obviously, this book is for advanced users … . It is a fantastic guide for those who want to discover all the secrets and confirm that their way of using Pi is right. … The book is worth recommending and worth every penny.” (Dominik Strzalka, Computing Reviews, April 11, 2019)