{"id":15282,"date":"2016-08-19T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15282"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:07:05","slug":"new-book-from-raspberry-pi-teaches-you-simple-electronics-and-gpio-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15282","title":{"rendered":"New book from Raspberry Pi teaches you simple electronics and GPIO Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/magpi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Essentials-07-GPIO-ZERO_Flat_Cover.jpg?resize=560%2C794&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"794\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation and The MagPi have announced the launch of another in their\u00a0<em>Essentials<\/em> series of books. This one is called\u00a0<em>Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero<\/em> 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&#8217;re dead chuffed that they mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\/edukit\" target=\"_blank\">CamJam EduKits<\/a> several times! There are 12 chapters to the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Program LED lights<\/li>\n<li>Add a push button to your project<\/li>\n<li>Build a motion sensing alarm<\/li>\n<li>Create your own distance rangefinder<\/li>\n<li>Make a laser-powered tripwire<\/li>\n<li>Build a Raspberry Pi robot<\/li>\n<li>and much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/magpi\/issues\/essentials-gpio-zero-v1\/\" target=\"_blank\">download it now, for free, from the MagPi website<\/a>\u00a0(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.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all involved, especially the author Phil King, as this will be a great resource for everyone to use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation and The MagPi have announced the launch of another in their\u00a0Essentials series of books. 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