{"id":12912,"date":"2015-07-10T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:18:03","slug":"beginners-electronics-project-on-the-raspberry-pi-needs-the-correct-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12912","title":{"rendered":"Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nicholas.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12913 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nicholas.jpg?resize=560%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"nicholas\" width=\"560\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nicholas.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nicholas.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarabcoder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ScarabCoder<\/a>) has created\u00a0a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He&#8217;s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a &#8216;keypad&#8217; of sorts and then written some Python code which detects the button presses and changes the state of the LEDs depending on whether the correct &#8216;code&#8217; is entered. Great to see this sort of thing from a youngster. Watch the video below, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRxJo88-sPQ\" target=\"_blank\">leave him a comment on YouTube<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarabcoder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">read his blog<\/a>! I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4216\" target=\"_blank\">previously featured Nicholas when he contributed to\u00a0the Minecraft universe via Martin O&#8217;Hanlon&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raspberry Pi Passcode\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRxJo88-sPQ?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>California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created\u00a0a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He&#8217;s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a &#8216;keypad&#8217; of sorts and then written some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12912\">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":[22,50,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-making","category-programming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code - 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=12912\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created\u00a0a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). 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