Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
his is the oicial website of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It's more than simply
a resource to download the latest software for your Pi; the front page features a
new article every day on new developments, project ideas and inspirational sto-
ries, and the entire Raspberry Pi community uses the website's forum to discuss
ideas, projects, and future developments. It is designed mainly for adults, which
means it can be a little daunting at irst, but if you are stuck on a project you can
post a question and someone will know the answer and be able to help you out.
very start of your Raspberry Pi adventure, when you installed the New Out Of
the Box Software from Raspberry Pi. During installation you were given the
option in the
raspi-config
to add your Pi to Rastrack. his website allows
you to register your Raspberry Pi and your location. You can then see where
other owners of Pis live, using an interactive map. he website was created by
Ryan Walmsley when he was 16 years old and has been a huge success.
learn-raspberry-pi
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he Adafruit learning system website features detailed
lessons on electronics. You may recall that for the jukebox project in Adventure
9 you used some code from Adafruit to get the LCD display up and running. Not
only does Adafruit provide open source code for electronics projects on its site
but it also has a dedicated section with lessons on Raspberry Pi GPIO that you
can follow at your own pace, as well as project ideas and tutorials featuring both
Pi and electronics.
had a taste of what it is like to be a games developer of sorts by using Python
code to make something happen in the world of Minecraft. If you enjoyed that
project and would like more tutorials on Minecraft Pi, head over to Martin
O'Hanlon's website,
Stuf about=“code”
, where you'll ind one of the largest collec-
tions of Minecraft Pi tutorials on the Internet. Projects range from having live
Twitter feeds appear in Minecraft Pi blocks to iring cannons. here are plenty of
fun ideas just waiting for you to try.
Foundation has placed all the documents relating to the Python programming
language online. he website includes tutorials as well as reference material for
all the commands you are likely to use. It's a great site if you get stuck with writ-
ing code, especially if your program is generating syntax errors! he site can be
quite confusing to navigate at irst, but you will ind it a valuable reference point
when coding.
