Chapter 6. Detecting and Protecting Against Your Enemies

In our final masterclass, we're going to look at ways to detect infiltrations and protect ourselves against other would-be spies. To help us do this, we will be plugging sensors and other gadgets into our Raspberry Pi so we can be alerted when people stray into our territories.

The Raspberry Pi has lots of ways of connecting things to it, such as plugging things into the USB ports, connecting devices to the onboard camera and display ports, and to the various interfaces that make up the GPIO (General Purpos Input/Output) connector. As part of our detection and protection regime, we'll be focusing mainly on connecting things to the GPIO connector.

During this chapter we will:

  • Explore the GPIO ...

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