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Python

Posted by Jonathan Philippou
Jonathan Philippou
Courses Plus Student 1,704 Points

Raspberry Pi plz!!!

Dear Team Treehouse and fellow students,

I love raspberry pi, and I'd love to see raspberry pi courses in the python section! If Treehouse already has courses on raspberry pi, can someone send me a link? Thanks everyone!

4 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

I love Raspberry Pi as well :)

I have both a Raspberry Pi 1 and a Raspberry Pi 2. The Raspberry Pi 2 is so much faster! However, it seems that they already came out with Raspberry Pi 3 :laughing:

Anyway, if you are familiar with Ubuntu, the raspberry pi is pretty similar.

The sweet part about Raspberry Pi with Python is because it has PyGame pre-installed! :smiley:

I'm a game developer (and, also a back-end developer), so I really like how it comes with PyGame!

I hope Kenneth Love will come out with a course (or workshop) about the Raspberry Pi and, even better, PyGame!

Ronav Saundh
Ronav Saundh
8,070 Points
Ronav Saundh
Ronav Saundh
8,070 Points

Hi, I haven't understood how to connect the raspberry pi 3 to my Windows computer. Can anyone give a solution to this. Maybe an hdmi option would be good. Thanks in advance.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

A Raspberry Pi is a computer on its own. You don't need another machine to run it. All you need to use a Raspberry Pi is:

  • HDMI cable to connect to a monitor, like a small TV
  • A Micro SD card with at least 8 GB. (This is the memory, you probably want a lot of it! I have 16GB for my Raspberry Pi.)
  • A standard phone wire that seems to fit in the Raspberry Pi (this is used for the power)
  • A mouse with a USB output
  • A keyboard with a USB output
marct
marct
5,323 Points
marct
marct
5,323 Points

I would take that course. I have 2x R Pi 3. One is a 5 person vanilla Minecraft server and the other is part of a Kano kit I got for the kids at Christmas. they are awesome.

Ronav Saundh
Ronav Saundh
8,070 Points

Hi, Thanks a lot. I've got it connected. But my camera program is not working on python. Can you please also tell me if we can use a PC as a display because I have an HDMI port in my PC. Can you also tell me how to view the videos on rasberry pi 3 as they are in some format called .h264. I tried converting to mp4 using MP4 Box. But there is no video player in rasberry pi 3. Thanks for your help

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I'd love to have some RaspPi content. I, unfortunately, don't have one myself and don't have a ton of interest in microcontrollers/mini-computers either. That's more Andrew Chalkley and Craig Dennis territory.