{"id":11659,"date":"2014-12-23T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2014-12-23T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:15:39","slug":"naughty-or-nice-raspberry-pi-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11659","title":{"rendered":"Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learn.adafruit.com\/system\/assets\/assets\/000\/021\/704\/medium800\/leds_DSC_0446.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cannonfodder\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Corteil<\/a> is a regular at both <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\" target=\"_blank\">CamJam and Potton Pi &amp; Pints<\/a>. He often brings along his &#8216;naughty and nice&#8217; machine which\u00a0magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you&#8217;ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time &#8211; it could really save Father Christmas a lot of time! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/naughty-or-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about it at the Raspberry Pi Foundation<\/a> or find out how to make your own by <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/naughty-or-nice-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">heading over to Adafruit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from Adafruit<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi &amp; Pints. He often brings along his &#8216;naughty and nice&#8217; machine which\u00a0magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you&#8217;ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11659\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[56,50,48,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-making","category-silliness","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine - 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=11659\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi &amp; Pints. 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