{"id":11819,"date":"2015-01-20T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:24:50","slug":"building-a-voting-system-with-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11819","title":{"rendered":"Building a voting system with the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.switchsystems.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/xq1Nyp9-Imgur.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The folks at Joypad Bar (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/joypadbar\" target=\"_blank\">@joypadbar<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"u-textUserColor\" title=\"http:\/\/www.joypadbar.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/SBJXxbfFkl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"me nofollow\">joypadbar.co.uk<\/a>) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python that would detect votes and keep a tally. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.switchsystems.co.uk\/2015\/01\/building-a-voting-system-with-a-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">see the results of their work and how they did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar,\u00a0joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. 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