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Raspberry Pi Embedded Projects Hotshot

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Embedded Projects Hotshot Enter the world of mechatronic systems with the Raspberry Pi to design and build 12 amazing projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849696227
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello World FREE CHAPTER 2. A Raspberry WebIDE Example 3. The Arduino Raspberry Pi Interface 4. Christmas Light Sequencer 5. Internet of Things Example – An E-mail Alert Water Fountain 6. Raspberry Pi as a Personal Assistant 7. Raspberry Pi-based Line Following Robot 8. Connect Four Desktop Game using Raspberry Pi 9. The Raspberry Pi-enabled Pet/Wildlife Monitor 10. Raspberry Pi Personal Health Monitor 11. Home Automation using Raspberry Pi 12. Using a Raspberry Pi for Science and Education 13. Tips and Tricks Index

Setting up the parser for reminders and events


In this task, we will implement a module that will blink an LED to remind us about important events and appointments.

Prepare for lift off

The Google Data Python client library is required for this task. You also have to save some tasks in your calendar to test the implementation.

Engage thrusters

  1. Using the Python IDLE's editor, let's get started by creating a new file called calendars.py:

    import gdata.calendar.service
    import gdata.service
    import gdata.calendar
    import time
  2. We can get started by defining a Google Calendar object. We will define the username and password for our Google account:

    calendar_service = gdata.calendar.service.CalendarService()
    calendar_service.email = 'username@gmail.com'
    calendar_service.password = 'password'
    calendar_service.ProgrammaticLogin()
  3. The calendar_query function performs a query for calendar events by defining a time frame as follows:

    query = gdata.calendar.service.CalendarEventQuery('default','private','full')
    query...
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