Raspberry Pi Electronics Projects for the Evil Genius

Contains a lot of information on interesting projects for the Raspberry Pi. I couldn't resist buying this book for the title alone, but I am glad I did now that I have seen the content. It was well worth purchasing and having..

great item, we are very happy

What I thought it was and has been useful

Nice book for PI users.

Expanding the usefulness of the PI.

For my Raspbarry Pi Library.

I received an early copy from the publisher. I have say there's nothing Evil about the projects - I was kind of hoping for a automated Nerf turret or something slightly nefarious. This book isn't even the Diet Coke of Evil.However, I wish I had this book when I first received my Raspberry Pi. The transition from an Arduino to Raspberry Pi is fairly hard because a Pi is very powerful and configurable, but along with that comes a large amount of complexity. Chapter 1 of the book would have saved me a bunch of time and Googling. It's laid out nicely and covers the things you need to know in the order that you are likely to need them.The projects in the book are worth reading. However, most projects are fairly expensive to build. But the nice thing about this book is it concretely covers a bunch of Pi projects that I've read about and wanted to know more about without the expense of having to do it myself. Example of these are: using an Arduino as a coprocessor, building a supercomputer cluster with Pi's and Software defined radio. The book takes researching these things from hours of Googling to a 20 or 30 minute well organized read.There is one project I do intend to build which is a Pi as a Lego Mindstorm controller. My kids both went through First Lego League and I have a bunch of parts around. I think this would be a fine project for my son and I this summer.I have a long held grudge with Tab books (the publisher) because of the shoddy books they used to put out in the 1980's. However the last couple of books I've received from them have had great content and were edited very well. I'm going to have to reconsider my old timey grudge with them.This book is quite good and has inspired me to tackle one of the projects in the book. That plus the great introduction to Pi's, is the most you can expect out of a book like this, so that's why I'm giving it 5 stars.

This book offers a very wide array of interesting projects to do with your Raspberry Pi. It's a good sampling where at least one project is bound to tickle your fancy; each project touches a different domain.While it requires some knowledge of coding and computers, I am really impressed with the density of information the author has managed to pack; he's also avoiding a "do as I say" approach, but gives you the various options, their benefits and drawbacks, and how to proceed. From the beginner to the expert, everyone is bound to learn something. In my opinion a tinkering 12 year old will be over the moon with this book, but as a professional programmer who's been juggling with Unix since the 1980s, I still found much to learn, and best of I never found it boring. I particularly liked the writing style: it's friendly and familiar, but also accurate and concise.Some minor criticism: the book would have benefitted from a companion web site with downloadable source code, and links to suppliers for the accessories.I think the best way to learn a new computer language or a new computer environment is to start a project, but sometimes it's hard to get project ideas when one is not familiar with the possibilities of the platform. This book acts as a perfect guide and is a wonderful helper, also saving you lots of time getting started. Very highly recommended.

More uses for a Raspberry PI.

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