Andrew Robinson & Mike Cook 
Raspberry Pi Hardware Projects 1 

Learn how to take full advantage of all of Raspberry Pi’s
amazing features and functions–and have a blast doing it!

Congratulations on becoming a proud owner of a Raspberry Pi, the
credit-card-sized computer! If you’re ready to dive in and
start finding out what this amazing little gizmo is really capable
of, this ebook is for you.

Taken from the forthcoming Raspberry Pi Projects,
Raspberry Pi Hardware Projects 1 contains three cool
hardware projects that let you have fun with the Raspberry Pi while
developing your Raspberry Pi skills. The authors – Pi Face
inventor, Andrew Robinson and Raspberry Pi For Dummies co-author,
Mike Cook – show you how to build:

* Reaction timer

* Twittering toy

* Disco Lights

The ebook also includes a brief guide to setting up the
Raspberry Pi for those very new to its unique ways and a bonus
project, the Insult Generator, which will teach you simple Python
programming while making you laugh.

With Raspberry Pi Hardware Projects 1 you’ll learn
everything you need to know to program the Raspberry Pi and build
cool, automated and interactive gadgets in no time.

Table of Content

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1

Test Your Reactions 3

CHAPTER 2

The Twittering Toy 27

CHAPTER 3

Disco Lights 49

APPENDIX A

Getting Your Raspberry Pi Up and Running 73

APPENDIX B

Introductory Software Project: The Insult Generator 93

About the author

Dr Andrew Robinson (Manchester, UK) worked at the University of Manchester School of Computer Science, where they have just launched the Great British Raspberry Pi Bake Off, a competition to get people making projects with the Pi. Andrew has quickly become a leading expert on the Pi and its astounding capabilities, including guest posts on raspberrypi.org, the official mouthpiece of Raspberry Pi. He is the creator of Pi Face, which makes interfacing with the Raspberry Pi significantly easier. He is currently utilizing the Raspberry Pi as part of the team behind the BBC’s Springwatch.

Mike Cook is is the co-author of Raspberry Pi For Dummies. Mike is a veteran tech author and a freelance consultant for all things to do with Physical Computing. A former Lecturer in Physics at Manchester Metropolitan University, he has written more than three hundred computing and electronics articles for the pages of computer magazines since the 1980s. Mike patrols the forums as Grumpy Mike, though he is anything but!