The Raspberry Pi platform was developed to lower the barriers to teaching young people programming, and it is also popular with hardware hackers and hobbyists who may have a project that needs more computing power than a microcontroller. The first section of the book gets you up and running; after the first chapter the reader will have installed the operating system, will have an understanding of all the hardware features of the Pi, and will have set up the small computer with the correct power source and peripherals. This is followed by a quick start user guide, with enough context and examples of commands to get around the computer. The book also provides instructions for getting started with programming in Scratch and Python, and examples of using the general purpose input and output interface. Finally, the reader is guided through two hands on hardware hacking projects.

Matt Richardson：Brooklyn的一名創意技術專傢和製片人。他是MAKE雜誌和Makezine.com網站的撰稿人。他也是Awesome Button Studio技術谘詢公司的所有者。他的Descriptive Camera作品非常齣名，這個是一個可以輸齣對於所拍照片場景的文字描述而不是照片本身的“照相機”。他還開發瞭Enough Already，這個作品能在當颱詞中齣現某個關鍵詞時自動把電視機靜音一段時間。Matt的作品受到瞭紐約時報、連綫、New York Magazine的關注並在內華達藝術博物館和Santorini Bienniele展齣。他現在是紐約大學Interactive Telecommunications Program的研究生。

Shawn Wallace：O'Reilly編輯，傢住羅得島州的普羅維登斯。他是Fluxama工作室的成員之一，負責新型的iOS樂器開發，比如Noisemusick和Doctor Om。他在Modern Device設計瞭一些開源硬件套件並在普羅維登斯Fab Lab進行Fab Academy教學。他曾任AS220 藝術空間的董事總經理一職並且是SMT Computing Society的創始人之一。

李凡希：軟件工程師，熱愛GNU/Linux與自由軟件，GNU官方網站中文翻譯組成員，南京Linux用戶組聯閤發起人。勤於創造，樂於分享。現就職於阿裏巴巴，從事搜索引擎後端離綫計算與大數據處理相關的研發工作。