Toys I Built with a Raspberry Pi in 2020
Rotom Pokédex
My son asked me to make him a Pokémon Rotom Smartphone, so I did!
When you say “Rotom, Pikachu,” it tells you all about Pikachu.
I was wishing there were a Pokémon API, and while searching for one I came across these articles:
Wonderful articles by a colleague of mine!
Pikachu RC Car
This is an RC car with Pikachu riding on it.
I placed a controller on a web page and drive the RC car over the web.
You’ll naturally end up building this as you work through the book below!
It teaches Raspberry Pi projects in a systematic way, so I thought it was perfect for beginners.
You can download the program code and use it as-is, so you can get everything working without even looking at the internals.
The programming is also explained thoroughly, making it ideal for understanding how the system receives instructions from a web browser and sends signals to the pins that control the motors.
The main parts are as follows:
After Building These
Beyond the many moments where I found myself going “Wow, you can do that!?”
what made me happiest was seeing how much my kids enjoyed them.
