Acknowledgments

First, all glory, and praise go to God, who through His Son, Jesus Christ, makes all things possible and gives us the gift of eternal life.

Many thanks go to the fantastic team of people at Sams Publishing, for their outstanding work on this project. Thanks to Rick Kughen, the executive editor, for offering us the opportunity to work on this book and keeping things on track. We are grateful to the development editor, Mark Renfrow, who provided diligence in making our work more presentable. Thanks to the production editor, Andy Beaster, for making sure the book was produced. Many thanks to the copy editor, Kitty Wilson, for her endless patience and diligence in making our work readable. Also, we are indebted to our technical editor, Jason Foster, who put in many long hours double-checking all our work and keeping the book technically accurate.

Thanks to Tonya of Tonya Wittig Photography, who created incredible pictures of our Raspberry Pis and was very patient in taking all the photos we wanted for the book. We would also like to thank Carole Jelen at Waterside Productions, Inc., for arranging this opportunity for us and for helping us out in our writing careers.

Christine would also like to thank her student, Paul Bohall, for introducing her to the Raspberry Pi, and her husband, Timothy, for his encouragement to pursue the “geeky stuff” students introduce her to.