#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller

Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action.

Here’s what he says about it:

We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program. The basic flow is Audio is played to attract the customer to use the game. Customer inserts money, which breaks the attract audio, and launches a randomly selected fortune reading, which is stored as an audio file on the Pi. Once the fortune reading is complete, the relays on PiFace are triggered, and this starts 2 12v arcade cabinet devices, a card dispenser, which issues a fortune card, and finally a ticket dispenser, which issues tickets for use in the gift shop. Once this is complete, the code reverts back to attracting customers.

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