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Raspberry Pi By Example

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi By Example Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi right out of the box

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285066
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arush Kakkar Arush Kakkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Raspberry Pi and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Minecraft Pi 3. Building Games with PyGame 4. Working with a Webcam and Pi Camera 5. Introduction to GPIO Programming 6. Creating Animated Movies with Raspberry Pi 7. Introduction to Computer Vision 8. Creating Your Own Motion Detection and Tracking System 9. Grove Sensors and the Raspberry Pi 10. Internet of Things with the Raspberry Pi 11. Build Your Own Supercomputer with Raspberry Pi 12. Advanced Networking with Raspberry Pi 13. Setting Up a Web Server on the Raspberry Pi 14. Network Programming in Python with the Pi A. Newer Raspberry Pi Models Index

Playing Minecraft Pi

Minecraft Pi comes preinstalled in the latest version of Raspbian. So, there is no need for an additional installation. Minecraft Pi can be found by navigating to Menu | Games. Alternatively, we can start it by typing minecraft-pi in lxterminal. The following screen will appear once we start the game:

Playing Minecraft Pi

Click on the Start Game button. Then, the following window will appear:

Playing Minecraft Pi

Click on Create New and it will start generating a new world for the gameplay:

Playing Minecraft Pi

Once the new world for the gameplay is generated, the player character is placed in the virtual world. The default view in the game is the first-person view. It will look as follows:

Playing Minecraft Pi

Note

In Minecraft Pi, a new world is randomly generated in a procedural manner. This means that the world is randomly created with the algorithm rather than using predetermined components. So, no two worlds in Minecraft Pi will be the same. You can learn more about procedural generation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation.

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