Win a Raspberry Pi 4 in Celebration of Our 10th Birthday!

The PI4 is just iconic until now I have ordered a 4Gb model that Farnell confirmed but is not able to ship. So, if I have the opportunity to have a 2Gb PI4 around next July 15 I am still on time. But let me step back. I'm writing a two-volumes opera for Makers, and I am in the final phase of the job, sending the versions to the editor, checking changes adding photos and so on. The titles are Vol1 - Projects For Makers based on Arduino and Vol2 - Projects For Makers on Raspberry PI. This editorial project (for the Italian editor Hulrico Hoepli in Milan) is not just a technical manual but a path through the Maker Community focusing the attention in these two platforms – Arduino and Raspberry PI – including chapters with contributions of notable worldwide characters connected to the Maker Community, as well a the contribution of tariq.ahmad and rscasny who explains to the Italian readers what does it means to be part of the Element14 community, the Project14 challenge and how makers can improve their knowledge testing new products, exchanging their knowledge, issues, doubts, etc. BTW, I am also trying to connect e14phil to speak about the Element14 challenges.

I plan to dedicate a chapter to the characteristics of the new Raspberry PI B4 introducing it in some of the projects presented in the second volume. The problem is that I have only the month of July and a week of August to do this, including making tests, photos and writing the chapter as well as integrating the new PI4 instead of the PI3 in some of the presented projects. At the moment my worry is at Red Alert level; if for some reasons Farnell can't ship the PI not later than next week I am obliged to exclude this chapter.

If someone is interested, below the main list of contents of the volume dedicated to the Raspberry PI I have translated to English.

Enrico

Projects for Makers on Raspberry PI

List of Contents

Part 1 Linux Embedded

We are talking about the crucial difference - often ignored or underestimated - between

microcontrollers that do not have a real operating system and Linux Embedded machines, real

computers with superior functionality and in some ways amazing.

Chapter 1 - It's not a microcontroller

Chapter 2 - A credit card sized computer

Chapter 3 – From Bash to Python, a software review

Part 2 Raspberry PI HAT

HATs are somehow similar to Shields for Arduino, with some software and hardware complications,

because they must be able to be recognized by the operating system. Nothing that makes it

impossible to make custom HAT and based with specifications.

Chapter 4 - PiSense HAT to support physical disability.

Chapter 5 - PiJuice, a sophisticated battery for the Raspberry

Chapter 6 - Graspi-IO, Internet of Things with Raspberry

Chapter 7 - Pulse Train Hat, a precision controller for stepper motors

Chapter 8 - PiFace Digital 2, relays and digital I/Os

Chapter 9 - Hand-made built PiHAT

Part 3 Raspberry PI as a dedicated machine

Contribution by Phil Hutchinson, Community Manager of Element14 and curator of the Challenge of

the Community, which in most cases includes a Raspberry PI

Chapter 10 - OSMC, a complete media station

Chapter 11 - Retro-Pie, an 80's console

Chapter 12 - PiScope, building a portable oscilloscope

Chapter 13 - PiTop a laptop with Raspberry PI

Chapter 14 - Introduction to musical synthesis with PureData

Chapter 15 - Building a Mellotron with the Raspberry Pl

Part 4 Network, Cloud and Internet of Things

We talk about the possibility of using both in the professional and individual and for hobby use

Raspberry PI as a reference point, often associated with Arduino, for the implementation of IoT

projects. Speaking of product evolution on the market, contribution by Randall Scasny, Head of the

Element14 Road Test Group, an excellent opportunity for makers to stay up to date and experiment

with new projects.

Chapter 16 - Building a time machine for Mac OSX

Chapter 17 - Raspberry PI and Arduino: IoT on the local network

Chapter 18 - Let's build an interactive magic mirror

Chapter 19 - Connecting two Raspberry PIs with the MQTT protocol

Chapter 20 - Artificial Intelligence experiments: Building a Borg access terminal

Chapter 21- Pi-Camera for photos and videos

Chapter 22 - A bot to chat on Twitter

Part 5 Resources of the Maker

Chapter 23 - Open source and Creative-Commons

Chapter 24 - The largest community of makers

Chapter 25 – Using network resources

Chapter 26 - Sharing knowledge

Chapter 27 - Hackers

Chapter 28 - Suggestions and good intentions

Hi Enrico,

Wow. Very interesting ToC! It's going to be an awesome book.

I only have one Pi 4, but if it helps, I can take some photos of it to send to you, with copyright transferred to you, so you can do as you like with them. Let me know if you wish me to do that, and what kind of photos you want.

Shabaz!

Many thanks, you are super. Well. if before the last week of July I see there is no way to do something else (it was interesting to show some of the described projects in the book (the most complex I think) with a 3B+ and 4 to test the performances increased, SSD SATA to USB3 for fast filesystem and data storage, etc.) I will contact you in private to decide how to take some shots so at least I can add a small chapter on it.

Thanks a lot! Enrico

Shabaz!

Many thanks, you are super. Well. if before the last week of July I see there is no way to do something else (it was interesting to show some of the described projects in the book (the most complex I think) with a 3B+ and 4 to test the performances increased, SSD SATA to USB3 for fast filesystem and data storage, etc.) I will contact you in private to decide how to take some shots so at least I can add a small chapter on it.

Thanks a lot! Enrico