Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius

Because the Pi is a fully functional PC on a little board, with many features (including multimedia!) in the class of Arduino and Propeller, most project books don't have the space to get into the basics of Pi, like loading the O/S and many other details. Since this is a UK unit, many of the websites (even though this is all open source) are a chore to sort out. Getting the free downloads shown in this book is worth the price of the book itself, DO NOT pay for the O/S on a site, it is free on many others, as shown in this fine little gem! True to the evil genius series, this book is an exception to the completeness issue! Not only are the projects fully detailed, with carefully tested code that works without glitches, the author also takes the time to go over the basics of Pi as well, including getting up and running before the project phases. The book has something in it for everyone because of that, from beginners to advanced designers and hobbyists. As a roboticist and teacher, I'm using the Pi more and more in place of Arduino programs (called sketches) because the motor controls are much more like the most advanced robotics, which often use Linux. The Department of Defense uses Linux in some of their drones! VERY scalable system. A great way to learn not only Pi, but electronics, programming and much more, from grade school to graduate engineer. And in case you're new to Pi, many folks are actually making the cheapest PC's on the planet with this little monster, INCLUDING HDTV interfaces for their monitors! The (non profit educational) Pi developers were smart enough to include multi media, which is amazing for a chip this size. If you want to go "big time" you can even combine it seamlessly pin to pin with Arduino for automation, or Propeller for multi processing. Highly Recommended.

This book speaks to my engineering instincts and builds a solid foundation. One star shy of a five star rating because some of the contents needs updating. The chapter about the robotic car (Boe Bot) isn’t complete with respect to instructions and is missing information about installing the library for controlling servo motors with a PCA9685 chip. The maker should be able to figure this but out with a little help from Google, but nevertheless the instructions should have been included in the book for consistency with the rest of the content. Notwithstanding this critique, I highly recommend this book for those who want to build a foundation than just a cool project.

This is one of those things you get and wish you had gotten it last year. Not only does this book show you how to build and program the projects, it goes behind the scene so to speak, and tells you in plain English, what the components you are using, actually do and how they work. Most books either tell you, get "piece A" connect this way, load this, power it up and go. This book explains what you are going to do, how the main component you are building around, works, and why you have to do what to get results. In other words, it tells you not only how, but why, on projects. You could spend hours on the Internet, trying to find details on how to use things like a GPS with your RPi but here in one place, you not only find how to make it work, but HOW it works, along with the sites you need to get the tools to use it, when it's finished. Best of all, you don't have to be a "Genius" to use this, even if you're new to Raspberry Pi, you will easily follow along with these projects. The author writes in very easy to follow format. You will definitely learn while using this book.

this is a good book to get going with the Raspberry Pi, but unfortunately all of the projects require external parts and usually a completely unique set of parts for that project. still good for learning how to work with this little machine.

I had started playing with the Pi, reading the blogs, and visiting sites to learn what I could .. by which time I had the Pi running with my own 16GB class 10 chip, with Raspbian, and running the gui desktop. Still, as I looked at the samples from this book, I decided to get the Kindle edition, and am happy I did. It reinforced what I already knew, filled in some missing blanks, and promises to be a nice guide to some fun projects. To be sure, I am an old time PC person (DOS), and am familiar with MAC and Linux, but this Pi and its GPIO is new [fun] stuff.

Some of the "Evil Genius" series better typifies the "evil" connotation than this book. However it is filled with real projects that will actually work and do real things. Not sure what is "evil" about this... The printing quality is mostly a problem in random number of the illustrations, especially the pictures and screen shots. Contrast and blurring makes it impossible to get any useful information out of them. And the size of some important illustrations is too small. For example, the "Project hardware layout" picture, figure 9-15 on page 121 is almost useless. A RaspberryPi is shown with a ribbon cable to a breakout board all sitting next to some other board that cannot be identified on top of what looks like more breakout board, perhaps all mounted on a Lexan or Plexiglas sheet. Considerable study of the text is needed to guess at the meaning of the picture, and I am certainly left with a concern that I am still missing something important. In the following chapter, "1-Wire Weather Station", many pictures are uselessly dark, but much of this can be "replaced" with web searches. Still, if you want to do real things with the RaspberryPi, here is a place to start. Perhaps the "evil genius" is that you will need to do a lot of outside research to complete some of these great projects. However, all of the projects are possible even for those of us who are neither evil or geniuses. However, don't start if you aren't determined to "git-er-done."

Another good referance for beginners using the Pi3 computer. This bookk has some good projects to try and good practice on programming.every project has a full parts list. This book was dilevered on time and is easy to understand.

This book is a great resource for anyone working with the Raspberry Pi board. It shows clearly how and why to use each port on the board and even talks about ports not yet in use.

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Being a computer enthusiast / evil genius, this struck me right off the bat as something that would be suitable for me. Needless to say I was not disappointed. My wife often complains that whilst some of my inventions appear genius, they are not evil enough; and vice-versa. This book has given me the inspiration I need to continue being evil whilst not spending too much time trying to figure things out for myself. Thanks Amazon! Some of the projects could have been slightly more evil but hey I'm not the 'evil police'.

Antes de comprar o livro fiquei impressionado pelo título "for genius", achei que encontraria coisas no livro que não teria achado na internet de forma gratuita e até mais explicativa, não gostei. Livro não acrescentou em nada o que já tinha encontrado de forma gratuita e totalmente livre na internet.

Libro sobre la raspberry Pi, lleno de proyectos prácticos y muy interesante, si eres un apasionado de la tecnología como yo, este libro no te va a defraudar, es un libro totalmente práctico y con el que sacarás mucho jugo a tu tarjeta raspberry pi. El autor de este libro tiene otros trabajos muy interesantes sobre electrónica muy recomendables.