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Interactive Light Up Window using a Raspberry Pi and micro:bit -- Episode 527


Lorraine wanted to use lots of her skills by creating an interactive window for her neighbors to play with. Each season the window will change theme and how you can interact with it. Friends, family, and neighbors can change the color of the window from the street. This season the project uses a Micro:bit connected to a raspberry pi over UART. Three capacitive touch buttons sit on the wall outside connected to the Micro:bit. The Raspberry Pi sends signals to two sets of lights: wired NeoPixels and over infrared signals. This project gives lots of useful tips like connecting a Micro:bit to a Raspberry Pi over serial, without using a USB cable. Adding capacitive touch buttons to the Micro:bit. Easily setting up a Raspberry Pi with individually controllable RGB LEDs and how to hack cheap RGB LED lights over infrared.

 

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Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
RASPBERRY PI 3 Raspberry Pi 1 Buy Now
Raspberry Pi Power Supply Raspberry Pi 1 Buy Now
SD Card TRANSCEND 1 Buy Now
Multicore Cable Multicomp Pro 1 Buy Now
Female Crimp Socket Harwin 9 Buy Now
Crimp housing Harwin 9 Buy Now
micro:bit BBC MICRO:BIT 1 Buy Now
micro:bit Edge Connector Kitronik 1 Buy Now
Breadboard MCM 1 Buy Now
10 kohm resistor TT ELECTRONICS 1 Buy Now
200 ohm resistor NEOHM 1 Buy Now
2n 2222 transistor ONSEMI 1 Buy Now
940 NM infrared LED Kingbright 1 Buy Now
Waterproof box FIBOX 1 Buy Now

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WS2812b string lights

Vinyl for adding decorations to the window

Infrared lights with remote

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