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    Experiment with the Sense HAT: Sense the Real World with Your Raspberry Pi
    Experiment with the Sense HAT: Sense the Real World with Your Raspberry Pi
    Experiment with the Sense HAT: Sense the Real World with Your Raspberry Pi
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    Experiment with the Sense HAT: Sense the Real World with Your Raspberry Pi

    By The Pi Education Team

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    Space exploration is fascinating and inspiring for children and adults alike. With the tiny Raspberry Pi computer helping to change the world little-by-little, it was only a matter of time before it went to space to help out there as well. This new adventure is called the Astro Pi project. To help the Raspberry Pi in its extraterrestrial mission, the Sense HAT was created to provide more functionality; the Sense HAT board sits on top of the Raspberry Pi, and has lights and sensors to allow the Pi to interact with the outside world.

    Master essential world-sensing skills across 10 chapters:

    • What is the Sense HAT?
    • How does the Astro Pi mission work?
    • Master the Sense HAT's capabilities
    • Build a fun gravity simulator
    • Make a digital Magic 8 Ball
    • Create an interactive pixel pet
    • Build a reactions testing game
    • Make a powerful data logger

    In this book, we aim to help you figure out exactly what the Sense HAT is and how you could use it to make your projects and dreams a reality. It's an incredibly versatile and flexible bit of kit with plenty of very obvious uses, along with many many less-obvious ones, that you'll love to make and share.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaspberry Pi Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781912047185
    Experiment with the Sense HAT: Sense the Real World with Your Raspberry Pi
    Author

    The Pi Education Team

    The Raspberry Pi education team is a selection of excellent individuals who love to teach teachers how to use the Raspberry Pi. As well as seeing their work at Picademies around the world, they also write teaching materials which can be found online and in The MagPi magazine.

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      Experiment with the Sense HAT - The Pi Education Team

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      CONTENTS

      [ CHAPTER ONE ]

      WHAT IS THE SENSE HAT?

      Learn why you should be excited.

      [ CHAPTER TWO ]

      HIGH FLIERS

      The Astro Pi mission in full.

      [ CHAPTER THREE ]

      GETTING STARTED WITH THE SENSE HAT

      Learn how to use your new Sense HAT

      [ CHAPTER FOUR ]

      GRAVITY SIMULATOR

      Cats on the moon need gravity too

      [ CHAPTER FIVE ]

      MAKE A DIGITAL MAGIC 8 BALL

      Shake up your fortune

      [ CHAPTER SIX ]

      INTERACTIVE PIXEL PET

      A digital pet all of your own

      [ CHAPTER SEVEN ]

      ASTRONAUT REACTIONS GAME

      Are you as fast as a trained astronaut?

      [ CHAPTER EIGHT ]

      SENSE HAT DATA LOGGER

      Keep a record of your surroundings

      [ THE PI EDUCATION TEAM]

      Some of the articles you’re about to read were created by the fantastic Raspberry Pi education team, a selection of excellent individuals who love to teach teachers how to use the Raspberry Pi. As well as seeing their work at Picademies around the world, they also write teaching materials which can be found online and in The MagPi magazine. You can read many more of their tutorials and lessons on the Resources section of the Raspberry Pi website: raspberrypi.org/resources

      [CHAPTER ONE ]

      WHAT IS THE SENSE HAT?

      The special add-on to the Raspberry Pi that lets it interact more with the world around, as seen on the ISS!

      A photograph of a Sense HAT add-on board tailored for seamless integration with Raspberry Pi devices. Environmental sensors, including temperature, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer, are present on the board along with other sensors.

      The Raspberry Pi can do a lot of things thanks to its size, portability, and ability to connect to the internet easily. With the GPIO ports you can control electronics and interact with the world. One of the best ways of doing this is by using an add-on like the Sense HAT.

      The Sense HAT is a very sophisticated add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. While HAT is an acronym (Hardware Attached on-Top), it does act in a way like a hat for your Raspberry Pi. The Sense HAT contains a suite of sensors that allows the Raspberry Pi to sense the world around it, along with an array of LEDs on top which can be used to display information on what the board can sense, and a little joystick.

      The Sense HAT is a vital component of the Astro Pi, the specially adapted educational Raspberry Pis which were sent up to the International Space Station with British ESA astronaut Tim Peake to run code created by children.This wasn’t what the HAT was originally designed for, though, as the Sense HAT’s Project Lead Jonathan Bell explains:

      I sort of hijacked a pet project of James [Adams’s] and turned it into a space-faring board, says Jonathan. James Adams is the Director of Hardware at Raspberry Pi, and along with Jonathan, was one of the main driving forces behind the Sense HAT.

      A photograph of Tim Peake. He holds a Sense HAT device connected to a system.

      British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, who will be using the Sense HAT on the ISS for various experiments created by school children

      Effectively we wanted to produce a board that would be a neat, fun example of how to design a HAT Jonathan continued. It was an exercise in how to design a HAT which could be put into mass-production: how would somebody go about doing that so hundreds of thousands of HATs could be made, and how would we design the board to deal with that.

      Half-way through development, what was once a relatively basic HAT had some sensors added to it, similar to the kind used on mobile phones. Eventually we said, hang on a minute, what happens if we put loads of sensors on this thing and turn it into a kind of a cool toy!

      When the Sense HAT was eventually completed, it had three key sensors: separate pressure and humidity sensors that

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