Raspberry Pi hardware reference

482 Pages·2014·7.545 MB·English

by  Gay, Warren

Mastering the Raspberry Pi
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you already know that the Raspberry Pi is an excellent teaching tool. Also available:

if you want to teach linux basics or Python programming, it’s a great Mastering
place to start. But what if you are an electronics engineer, a linux systems a
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administrator, or an experienced maker? you want to know the inner workings
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of the Raspberry Pi – how to design without wading through basics and
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introductory material.
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if you want to get right into the pro-level guts of the Raspberry Pi,
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voltages and temperatures, and recompiling the kernel, then Mastering the i
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Raspberry Pi is just the book you need. Along with thorough explanations
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examples that you can tune for your own project ideas.

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• how to set up the Raspberry Pi for bare metal interfacing e
• Detailed and clear explanations of the Pi’s hardware capabilities,
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including gPio A complete reference guide
• Working with Raspbian linux, including boot files, the Pi’s own And project ideA generAtor
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vcgencmd command, and cross-compiling software, for the rAspberry pi
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including the kernel
• how to build a gPio extender p
• how to interface a stepper motor with an h-bridge driver
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• how to make a remote control panel
• how to generate Pulse Width Modulation from the Pi e
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you’ll find yourself turning to Mastering the Raspberry Pi over and over
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again for both inspiration and reference. Whether you’re an electronics
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profes sional, or just looking for more detailed information on the Raspberry
Pi, this is exactly the book for you.
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Shelve in Computer Hardware/General
User level: Intermediate–Advanced
9781484201824 SOURCE CODE ONLINE Warren Gay
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