{"id":1178,"date":"2014-07-15T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.4\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2018-01-09T06:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:49:36","slug":"my-oh-my-raspberry-pi-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"My oh my! Raspberry Pi in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new piece of Pi…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got a message from the folks at MCM Electronics about the latest offering of Raspberry Pi.\u00a0 The new Model B offers some interesting features that I won’t go into details about here.\u00a0 You can find that on their website<\/a>.\u00a0 I will note that it has more IO’s than the previous versions, but the fundamental hardware is the same.<\/p>\n

What got me to post about this is Apress sent more an offer for one of their books, “Beginning Sensor Networks with Arduino and Raspberry Pi<\/a>“.\u00a0 Nothing ground shaking here.\u00a0 But I had intentions for using Pi last quarter and didn’t.\u00a0 This book looks like a perfect bridge to incorporate the Arduino experience and bring the Pi on board, pun intended.<\/p>\n

How will this play out?\u00a0 I’m not sure, but for $10 to get a copy of the ebook, I figure it’s worth a look.\u00a0 I don’t have the latest greatest Model B.\u00a0 That shouldn’t matter, I’m just looking for a bridge to the Land O’ Pi.<\/p>\n

Update…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got the book, turns out it was a one day promo. \u00a0It goes back to the standard price 2 hours after this post is made public. \u00a0Sorry, but if you get it at standard price, the folks at Apress will be sure to entice you with future offerings.<\/p>\n

The book starts out with some fundamentals on sensors, but it looks like the next section is what the book revolves around. \u00a0That being the XBee<\/a> device. \u00a0I haven’t done anything with these devices for reasons of priority. \u00a0Now might be a good entry point\u00a0for these devices.
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