Out today: Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero, 2nd edition

Today we’re releasing the second edition of Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero, the latest book in our Essentials series to get a spruce-up and a new lick of paint to bring it up to date. There are many reasons for Raspberry Pi’s success, but we know that one of the biggest, particularly among the hardware tinkerers of this world, is its 40-pin GPIO header, which enables the user to connect their computer to the real world.

Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero, by Phil King, takes the reader from turning an LED on and off to controlling simple electronic components, processing information from buttons, sensors and the internet, and controlling it all using Python on Raspberry Pi. If you’ve ever struggled with building a circuit, this is the book for you – it’ll take you all the way from beginner to building your first robot. And if you’ve ever tried to get into programming and needed something more interesting to work with than abstract lists and loops, physical computing is a great platform for learning the basics – and basics in this book will take you a long, long way.

GPIO Zero

This introduction to electronics takes you from the “what on earth is this?” stage to the “hey – I can do anything!” level, with projects including:

• Program some LED lights
• Add a push button to your project
• Build a motion-sensing alarm
• Create your own distance rangefinder
• Make a laser-powered tripwire
• Build a Raspberry Pi robot

You’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing much has changed in the world of GPIO; after all, the pins on a Raspberry Pi 5 follow exactly the same 40-pin layout as they have done on every Raspberry Pi computer since Raspberry Pi Model B+ in 2014 (the versions before that, the very first Model A and Model B, both had only 26 pins).

But things have changed in software: libraries have been renamed, meaning commands are slightly different; resources have been updated; Python has new ways of installing packages. The first edition of our GPIO Essentials book was published 2016, and this very useful little classic deserved a second edition.

Get your copy today

Find out what’s new in Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero, second edition, available from Raspberry Pi Press for £10.99. You can also find it on Amazon UK or Amazon US. Build amazing things!

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