{"id":12341,"date":"2015-04-06T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T09:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2015-04-06T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T09:36:22","slug":"get-spherical-with-this-interactive-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12341","title":{"rendered":"Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.element14.com\/community\/servlet\/JiveServlet\/showImage\/38-19322-219075\/pi%2Band%2Benclosure%2Bpi%2Bball.png?resize=560%2C471\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/people\/Catwell\" target=\"_blank\">Cabe Atwell<\/a> has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It&#8217;s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball, the accelerometer takes readings and when the ball is in a certain orientation the Neopixels light up and generally make things pretty. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/raspberry-pi\/raspberrypi_projects\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/pi-ball-the-spherical-and-interactive-raspberry-pi-2-case\" target=\"_blank\">read how he did it here<\/a>\u00a0and see a video of the project, including a\u00a0<em>really<\/em> inadvisable test of rolling it down a set of\u00a0stairs, below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pi Ball \u2013 The Spherical and Interactive Raspberry Pi 2 Case\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ToRKsivivg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. 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By rolling the ball,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12341\">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":[54,9,22,50,62,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-cases","category-geeky-techiness","category-making","category-sensors","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi - 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=12341\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. 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