Raspberry Pi Full Stack

A whirlwind tour of full-stack web application development on the Raspberry Pi

Created by: Dr. Peter Dalmaris
Educator and Author of "Maker Education Revolution".

What Will I Learn?

• Setup the minimal Raspbian Lite operating system to the RPi.
• Learn how to work in headless mode
• Learn to install and use the a Python virtual environment.
• Install and use Flask, a Python-based web micro-framework
• Install and use uWSGI as the application server for Flask
• Install and use Nginx light-weight web server
• Setup systemd to automatically start your application
• Use the RPi GPIOs as digital input and outputs
• Use a DHT22 humidity and temperature sensor
• Install and use the SQLite database
• Use the Google Chart API to create visual representations of the sensor data
• Use JQuery to add interactivity to web pages
• Use Plotly for graphical analysis of sensor data
• Assign a static IP address to your Raspberry Pi
• Expose your application to the Internet, and access it from anywhere

Requirements

• A Raspberry Pi 4, 3, 2, model B
• A Windows, Mac or Linux computer
• A DHT22 sensor
• An 5mm LED
• A pushbutton
• A breadboard and jumper wires
• Access to the Internet
• (Check hardware requirements in a free lecture in the first section of the course)

Target audience

• Makers who want to experience the full process of web application development
• Any experience in programming with a high-level language is useful but not necessary
• Experience with small breadboard circuit is useful but not necessary
• Anyone who want experience working with modern web application development technologies