Inspired by Dan Aldred‘s LEGO Clock hacks (http://www.tecoed.co.uk/darth-beats.html and http://www.tecoed.co.uk/yoda-tweets.html) I picked up a broken Batman clock from eBay for some hacking shenanigans. I had several aims, based on the great work of Dan before me
I embedded a PiZero into a Robosapien v1 and can now control it over Wifi using Python
I have been looking for an excuse to use some large, light up arcade buttons for a while now. With a weekend pass for the Raspberry Pi party I decided this was the time to go all out and create my biggest Pi build yet!
This project was inspired by the work of Andy Stanford-Clark (@andyc) and Lucy Rogers (@drlucyrogers). They used NodeRED to control a Maplin Action Dino kit via the Twitter hashtag #wakedino. When a tweet containing #wakedino is found by the NodeRED script, the motor is started, which in turn makes the dinosaur nod up and down.
I opted to recreate their work in Python using the Tweepy library. I also wanted to build upon the NodeRed implementation with the addition of sound, and the capturing and tweeting of an image. Continue reading
The blame for this little project can be firmly placed at the door of @SouthendRPiJams (aka Andy) after I signed up to be an Exhibitor at the Southend Raspberry Jam on 21st Feb. He dropped me a DM and the conversation went like this
SRJ:
We’re doing Astropi this jam but the HAT won’t be out. If you could show some of the equivalent AstroPi hardware and code working to help give people ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.