Raspberry Pi Workshop

An Introduction To Hacking

Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It can be used as a standalone computer, in electronics projects, games, and can also play HD video as a media center. In this workshop, you'll learn the details about what exactly the Raspberry Pi is, what hardware and software are included, how to get one up and running, how to interact with the Linux command line interface, how to write your first program for it, and how to get it to interact with a web service on the Internet.

Whether you're a software or hardware developer, maker, product manager, designer, technologist, or entrepreneur, this class will be incredibly useful to those interested in learning more about this amazing hardware.

This six week workshop, aimed at the novice hacker, covers topics including:

• Programming with Python
• Connecting the Pi to the outside world
• Controlling circuits with code
• Temperature sensing
• Taking photos and videos automatically

The workshop is project based and each week, we will do a two hour session, the first hour guiding you through some new concepts, and the second hour more focused on exploring and building new things towards the project goals - temperature monitoring, an alarm system and your first robot.