{"id":11062,"date":"2014-09-22T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2014-09-22T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:22:41","slug":"snakes-and-ladders-game-for-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11062","title":{"rendered":"Snakes and Ladders game for the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3856\/15039632047_fe71e45672_z_d.jpg?resize=560%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linux guru Les Pounder has created this fantastic version of Snakes and Ladders called Pythons and Resistors, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. You press a button to perform a dice roll and magnets and reed switches embedded in the playing pieces and the board trigger sounds to be played if you hit certain squares &#8211; the pythons (snakes) and resistors (ladders). It&#8217;s a really nice project for which he has provided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/people\/biglesp\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/build-a-board-game-with-the-raspberry-pi-b\" target=\"_blank\">a complete build-and-code tutorial<\/a>. Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/snakes-and-ladders-pi-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi Foundation for blogging<\/a> about this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux guru Les Pounder has created this fantastic version of Snakes and Ladders called Pythons and Resistors, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. 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