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Appendix D: Further reading
The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide is designed to get you started with your Raspberry Pi, but it’s by no means a complete look at everything you can do. The Raspberry Pi community is globe-spanning and vast, with people using them for everything from games and sensing applications to robotics and artificial intelligence, and there is a wealth of inspiration out there.
This appendix highlights some sources of project ideas, lesson plans, and other material which act as a great next step now you’ve worked your way through the Beginner’s Guide.
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The Raspberry Pi Blog
4rpf.io/blog Your first stop for the latest news on all things Raspberry Pi, the official blog covers everything from new hardware launches and educational material to roundups of the best community projects, campaigns, and initiatives. If you want to keep up to date on all things Raspberry Pi, this is where you need to be.
Raspberry Pi Projects
4rpf.io/projects The official Raspberry Pi Projects site offers step-by-step project tutorials in a range of categories, from making games and music to building your own website or Raspberry Pipowered robot. Most projects are available in a variety of languages, too, and cover a range of difficulty levels suitable for everyone from absolute beginners to experienced makers.
Raspberry Pi Education
4rpf.io/education The official Raspberry Pi Education site offers newsletters, online training, and projects with educators firmly in mind. The site also links to additional resources including the Picademy training programme, Code Club and CoderDojo volunteer-driven coding programmes, and global Raspberry Jam events.
The Raspberry Pi Forums
4rpf.io/forums The Raspberry Pi Forums are where Raspberry Pi fans can get together and chat about everything from beginner’s issues to deeply technical topics – and there’s even an ‘off-topic’ area for general chatting!
The MagPi Magazine
4magpi.cc The official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi is a glossy monthly publication which covers everything from tutorials and guides to reviews and news, supported in no small part by the worldwide Raspberry Pi community. Copies are available in all good newsagents and supermarkets, and can also be downloaded digitally free of charge under the Creative Commons licence. The MagPi also publishes the Essentials series of ‘bookazines’, which address specific individual topics – from using the command line to building your own electronics projects – in a friendly and easy-to-follow format. As with the magazine itself, they’re available to buy in printed format or to download for free under the Creative Commons licence.
Hello World Magazine
4helloworld.cc Published three times a year, Hello World is available free of charge for UK-based teachers, volunteers, and librarians. For everyone else, free digital copies can be downloaded under the Creative Commons licence, and subscriptions to the print version are available commercially.
HackSpace Magazine
4hsmag.cc Aimed at a broader audience than The MagPi, HackSpace Magazine takes a look at the maker community with hardware and software reviews, tutorials, and interviews. If you’re interested in broadening your horizons beyond Raspberry Pi, HackSpace Magazine is a great place to start – it can be found in print at supermarkets and newsagents or downloaded for free in digital form.
