Raspberry Pi. Setup and Usage Guide

The rapid progress of modern electronics in recent years has significantly affected all spheres of human activity, including the use of computer technologies. A significant breakthrough was the creation of full-featured computer systems on one crystal, the so-called System-ON-CHIP (SOC) The SOC integrates all the basic functional blocks inherent in computers (processor, memory, graphics processor, etc) One of the most popular modern miniature computers is implemented on one of these SOC-crystals, known as Raspberry PI.
This book is devoted to the practical aspects of the use of Raspberry PI, ranging from programming simple control and measurement systems in Python and ending with the development of multimedia systems and creating gaming applications in Scratch. Although Raspberry PI is placed on palm, it is capable of performing many features available to powerful desktop systems. Many popular desktop applications can be performed on Raspberry PI. In addition, Raspberry PI has powerful multimedia and graphic capabilities, in particular when working with 3D graphics, so this miniature computer can be used as a platform for developing game applications, which may be interested in many future programmers. Raspberry PI can also be used to create its own measuring and robotic systems with various sensors and executive devices. Creating such systems is possible due to the presence of a digital I / O port (GPIO) - this possibility is absent in conventional desktop PCs.
The material of the book will be useful to the widest audience, ranging from schoolchildren and students and ending with application developers for multimedia, Internet and control systems