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Build Your Own Car Dashboard with a Raspberry Pi

Practical Projects to Build Your Own Smart Car

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  • © 2020

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Authors:
  1. Joseph Coburn

    1. Alford, UK

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  • Write resilient, tested Python with production grade tools
  • Boost the IQ of your car with a Raspberry Pi and practical projects
  • Use Git, write unit tests, build an application, and deploy code

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Raspberry Pi History

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 1-12

  3. Software Development Primer

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 13-54

  4. Project Overview

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 55-64

  5. Local Development Configuration

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 65-118

  6. Raspberry Pi Initial Configuration

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 119-141

  7. Getting Started with Flask

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 143-170

  8. Temperature Monitoring

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 171-186

  9. Boot Sensor

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 187-206

  10. Light Sensor

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 207-217

  11. Fog and Reverse Sensors

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 219-229

  12. Reversing Camera

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 231-247

  13. Reversing Beeper

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 249-255

  14. Distance Sensor

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 257-263

  15. System Polishing

    • Joseph Coburn
    Pages 265-296

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 297-306
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About this book

Create your own car engine control unit (ECU) with a simple Raspberry PI while building the necessary skills to produce future more advanced projects. Once you've worked through the projects in this book, you'll have a smart car and the coding knowledge needed to develop advanced hardware and software projects.


Start by understanding how the Pi works, and move on to how to build hardware projects, use the GPIO pins, and install the system. Then add to that a solid understanding of software development principles and best practices, along with a good grasp of Python (v3.6+) and Python/software best practices. More than just how to code in Python, you'll learn what it takes to write production grade software, defensive code, testing, deployments, version control, and more. Internalize industry best practices while going further with valuable software development techniques such as defensive programming.


The concepts introduced are essential to ensuring that software can function under unexpected circumstances. Can you imagine what would happen if your mobile phone could not cope with a call from an unknown number, or you had to set you microwave in increments of 6 seconds? While testing avoids edge cases such as these, defensive programming is one of the building blocks of software development.



What You'll Learn

  • Hone test driven development in Python skills
  • Debug software and hardware project installations
  • Work with the GPIO ports of the Pi to feed your software real-world hardware information



Who This Book Is For


People who like working on cars and want to learn Raspberry Pi and software development but don’t know where to start. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Alford, UK

    Joseph Coburn

About the author

Joseph Coburn is an experienced computer science teacher, writer, editor, and software developer. His work has been shared by Adobe, Lifehacker, and the Arduino foundation. His code is used by thousands of people daily. And he is well versed with designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex software systems. The opportunity to share with and teach software development skills in Python and with the Raspberry Pi hits the sweet-spot of software and teaching. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Build Your Own Car Dashboard with a Raspberry Pi

  • Book Subtitle: Practical Projects to Build Your Own Smart Car

  • Authors: Joseph Coburn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6080-7

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Joseph Coburn 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6079-1Published: 21 July 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6080-7Published: 20 July 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 306

  • Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Hardware and Maker

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