{"id":11645,"date":"2014-12-18T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2014-12-18T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:17:52","slug":"raspberry-pi-gpio-xmas-tree-reaction-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11645","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-H45xqTYy__I\/VJLBmib6W7I\/AAAAAAAAKcc\/dpR-kHs9NnA\/s1600\/20141218_103130.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaboutcode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin O&#8217;Hanlon<\/a> got hold of one of Andrew Gale&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/gpio-xmas-tree-for-raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\">GPIO Xmas Trees<\/a>\u00a0and programmed it as a reaction game. Here&#8217;s how the game plays out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player has to press the button when the green led on the top of the tree is lit up. \u00a0The quicker you are, the higher you score.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got one of these trees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaboutcode.com\/2014\/12\/gpio-xmas-tree-reaction-game.html\" target=\"_blank\">take a look at Martin&#8217;s post here<\/a> &#8211; he&#8217;s provided all the code you need!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin O&#8217;Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale&#8217;s GPIO Xmas Trees\u00a0and programmed it as a reaction game. Here&#8217;s how the game plays out: The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11645\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,20,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-gpio-boards","category-programming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11645\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martin O&#8217;Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale&#8217;s GPIO Xmas Trees\u00a0and programmed it as a reaction game. 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