The Raspberry Pi Foundation and The MagPi have announced the launch of another in their Essentials series of books. This one is called Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero and focuses on teaching the reader how to use simple electronic components to affect and detect the real world, using the GPIO Zero Python library. We’re dead chuffed that they mention the CamJam EduKits several times! There are 12 chapters to the book:
- Program LED lights
- Add a push button to your project
- Build a motion sensing alarm
- Create your own distance rangefinder
- Make a laser-powered tripwire
- Build a Raspberry Pi robot
- and much more
and you can download it now, for free, from the MagPi website (the PDF link is on the right hand side) or buy it via the Apple App Store and Google Play. Ben Nuttall, co-developer of the Python library, said that it would soon be available in print, too, so there are multiple options for you.
Congratulations to all involved, especially the author Phil King, as this will be a great resource for everyone to use!