Raspberry Pi For Dummies

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Download a free paper case template for your Raspberry Pi

You can download a free Raspberry Pi For Dummies paper case template to protect your Raspberry Pi. Just download the PDF and print it out, cut it out and then glue it together. It includes holes for the sockets and ports on your Raspberry Pi, and you can additionally cut into it to accommodate any GPIO connectors you're using. There are three versions of the case:

• The For Dummies case, suitable for the Model B+, Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3.
• The template case, also suitable for the Model B+, Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3. With minimal branding on it, you can use this case to make your own designs.
• The original Raspberry Pi For Dummies case, created for the original Raspberry Pi Model B when the first edition of the book was published.

The case design was created by the For Dummies team at Wiley, based on the original template by Ian McPhee, who kindly gave us permission to do this.

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Download the example files from Raspberry Pi For Dummies

You can download the example files from the book in a zip file here. You can also download the bonus chapters mentioned in the book at the publisher's website here.

The book also mentions my Amstrad CPC games, which you can use on the Raspberry Pi using the Lakka OS. They include a number of games I wrote for Amstrad Action and Amstrad Computer User magazines back in the 80s. If you're looking for a dose of retrogaming on your Raspberry Pi, give them a go!

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Video: Watch the Minecraft Maze Maker in action

One of the chapters in the book shows you how to use Python to build worlds in Minecraft. As well as showing you how to add and remove blocks in the Minecraft world, the chapter shows you how to create a program that generates random mazes you can explore in Minecraft. Here's a video showing my Minecraft Maze in action.

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Reviews of Raspberry Pi For Dummies

The free monthly publication The Magpi published a great review of the first edition of the book in issue 13, shown below.

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Read my Raspberry Pi blogs and articles

• Blog homepage, for the latest posts
• Create a Raspberry Pi text scroller with the Unicorn HAT (PDF) | Get the code
• Learn to read music on the Raspberry Pi with Clef Hero for the Piano HAT (PDF) | Get the code
• Discover how Aphex Twin and Dave Griffiths are making synth sounds with the Raspberry Pi (PDF)
• See how the Raspberry Pi can be used to make interactive embroidery (PDF)
• Create a multiple choice quiz in Scratch (PDF) | Get the code
• Using the PiCube on Raspberry Pi
• Adding gesture control to the Raspberry Pi with Flick
• Assembling the Google AIY Kit for Raspberry Pi
• Discover Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
• Making music with Scratch and Sonic Pi: Note names and numbers
• How to make music on the Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi (including the music from the second edition of Raspberry Pi For Dummies)
• Hear and download the Sonic Pi music example from the third edition of Raspberry Pi For Dummies
• Finding and debugging the top 5 errors in Scratch programs
• 10 block Scratch demos
• A short history of the Raspberry Pi
• Behind the scenes: Writing a For Dummies guide
• Interview with Paul Hallett, technical author of Raspberry Pi For Dummies

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Archive posts

• What's new in the second edition of Raspberry Pi For Dummies?
• What's changed in the Raspberry Pi 2 and the new Raspberry Pi desktop?
• Make a Raspberry Pi torch and burglar alarm in Scratch with the CamJam EduKit and ScratchGPIO
• Raspberry Pi at BETT 2015
• Raspberry Pi For Dummies features in Edible Book Awards
• Raspberry Pi, Scratch and Minecraft at the Gadget Show
• Pycon UK 2013: A round-up of the Python conference
• Raspberry Pi at BETT 2013
• Sean's photos of the Raspberry Pi
• How to play classic arcade games on the Raspberry Pi with PiMAME
• Building a Lego case for the Raspberry Pi

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About the authors

Raspberry Pi For Dummies is co-written by Sean McManus and Mike Cook.

Sean McManus is also the author of Coder Academy, Cool Scratch Projects in Easy Steps, iPad for the Older and Wiser (a #1 Amazon bestselling hardware book), Web Design in Easy Steps (a #1 Amazon bestseller in web design), and Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser. He has written for a wide range of business and technology magazines and learned to program in the 1980s on an Amstrad CPC 464.

Mike Cook is an electronics expert with a particular interest in micro controller/computer applications. He has worked as hardware team leader at Pace Micro Technology, and was technical editor of The Micro User and contributing editor to Acorn User magazines.