Preface

The purpose of this book is to get you started with Raspberry Pi, but this book has chapters focused on Raspberry Pi 2. The main goal here is to get your projects started with some solid hardware and programming tips, which are essential.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi, will cover the basic equipment that we need to use with this book. We will have to look into other peripherals that we have bought to see how the Raspberry works. We will then see how to flash the newest Raspbian image to our SD card.

Chapter 2, Preparing a Network, will illustrate how to set up LAN and a wireless connection to our network to connect to the Internet. We will set some network benchmarks and understand some of its limitations. ...

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