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The Raspberry Pi Masterclass
A Field Manual for Engineers Who Build in the Physical World
About this workbook
A 25-chapter field manual for engineers who build in the physical world — from first boot to production. Covers GPIO and circuits for software people, the Pi Camera and OpenCV, headless development, Docker on the Pi, security hardening, and two capstone builds (a smart security camera and an environmental monitor). Written for people who want the Pi to run real systems, not blink an LED once.
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Part 1: First Principles
- The Thirty-Five Dollar Production Machine 10 min
- Python for the Pi 12 min
- First Boot 9 min
- Your Remote Cockpit 10 min
Part 2: The Hardware Layer
- Circuits for Software People 10 min
- Digital Output 10 min
- Digital Input 10 min
- PWM and Analog Control 11 min
- Motors and Motor Drivers 11 min
Part 3: Seeing the World
- OpenCV on the Pi: Your First Computer Vision Stack 10 min
- The Image Processing Pipeline 10 min
- Live Video and the Pi Camera 11 min
- Drawing and Annotation 10 min
- Face Detection on the Pi 12 min
Part 4: Connected Systems
- Going Headless 10 min
- Sensor Networks and MQTT 12 min
- APIs on the Edge 11 min
- Home Automation Patterns 11 min
Part 5: Production Engineering
- Docker on the Pi 12 min
- Security Hardening 11 min
- Systemd and Reliability 11 min
- Monitoring and Alerting 12 min
Part 6: From Prototype to Product
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