Chapter 1Assembling the Hardware

Making your own Pi projects is not only a rewarding, educational endeavor, it’s also a lot of fun. It’s enlightening and empowering to see your creations come to life after connecting inexpensive hardware and writing a few lines of Python code. In this book, you’re going to create cool, practical projects, spanning water leak alerts to security camera captures, and home automation to making chatbots. Each of these projects builds on the next, so it’s best to do them in order. After building the projects in this book, you’ll have the ability to put your own amazing automation ideas into practice.

But before we can begin these Pi project adventures, you need to acquire the necessary hardware to construct them. ...

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