Explore Raspberry Pi GPIO pins in this intermediate course. Build projects like a Walky Talky, light detector, and motion-sensing teddy bear. Enroll now!
This fun course takes you on a journey with Raspberry Pi, showing you how to interact with the physical world. You’ll create nifty projects like a Walky Talky, a light detector, and a motion-sensor teddy bear—all while honing your Python skills!
Learn how to use GPIO pins of Raspberry Pi to create hardware projects and interact with the physical world.
This is a follow on course to the #1 Raspberry Pi course on Udemy - "Introduction to Raspberry Pi".
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This is an intermediate course about the credit card sized computer Raspberry Pi. This course is ideal for those who are interested in exploring the possibilities of Physical computing with Raspberry Pi. The course assumes basic knowledge on computer programming. However, knowledge of Linux operating system and Python programming language would greatly help you in getting up to speed.
The GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi are a great way to interface with physical devices like resistors and sensors with the little Linux processor. If you're a Python lover, there's a sweet library called RPi dot GPIO that handles interfacing with the pins.
You will learn 3 complete hardware projects. The first one teaches you how to build a Walky Talky to make the most of your Raspberry Pi using Linux command. You just have to enter the desired frequency and you can talk to your neighbors without paying any operator charges!
The second project involves building a light detector mechanism which let you know the amount of light available in the particular area. The Raspberry Pi hardware uses a computer program written in Python. You will hook the Pi up with light detector circuit and will use the program to know the sensor behavior upon different intensities of light.
The third project teaches you to build a motion sensor based teddy bear which laughs upon waving our hand. The motion detector circuit will be embedded inside the teddy bear and will be controlled using a program written in Python to sense the motion.
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The course provides the complete source code for all the three hardware projects.
The entire course can be completed over a fortnight, including the hardware assembly and coding in Python.
By the end of this course, you can build your own Raspberry Pi controlled physical devices. You will also learn how to write your own python code to interact directly with the physical world.
Create Raspberry Pi based Walky Talky.
Build light detector mechanism.
Build a motion detector using PIR motion sensor.
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Venkatesh Varadachari is the founder of MAKERDEMY, a pioneer maker education company head-quartered in Singapore.   Venkatesh believes that knowledge should be made available to people in all walks of life. Venkatesh also believes in the power of education to transform lives.   Venkatesh has an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.   He also has a degree in Electrical...
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4 projects that don't have much real-world applications.
It's pretty good
Watching the program get typed in is lots like watching paint dry. If the instructor just put loaded the program and explained it, the course would be much shorter, more enjoyable and just as instructive.
- Light Detector Project: Only explained how a LDR worked and did not explain that the logic of the system relied on the time response of the capacitor in the circuit. Hence, the logic of the corresponding Python script would not make sense to newcomers.
- PDF outline of the webcam project is good. Should have a similar file with all the other projects as a text reference.
This is a great introductory course. The wiring may be a little difficult for beginners.
Fun!
It was fun to build the stuff but the teaching part wasn't the best.
I've learned something new in every lesson.
I am new to Raspberry. There is no instructions on setting up the development environment. Also it does not uses breadboard which is more easy to follow. I am yet to find another tutorial for setting up the development environment.
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Francis A.
very good course