{"id":13585,"date":"2015-10-21T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2015-10-21T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:12:15","slug":"delorean-time-circuit-and-flux-capacitor-with-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13585","title":{"rendered":"Delorean Time Circuit and Flux Capacitor with the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortoffee.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-06-16.21.09.jpg?resize=560%2C747\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy\u00a0<em>Back to the Future<\/em> Day!<\/strong> In\u00a0honour of this momentous occasion, when we can expect Marty McFly to travel from the past and appear somewhere above\u00a0Hill Valley, California, I&#8217;ve decided to re-post this excellent project from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForToffee\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Monk<\/a>. In his <a href=\"http:\/\/fortoffee.org.uk\/raspberry-pi-delorean\/\" target=\"_blank\">extensive write-up<\/a>, he explains how he built and coded the Delorean Time Circuit and Flux Capacitor from the movie. It&#8217;s great stuff, really in-depth and definitely worth a re-visit, whatever your time period. So <a href=\"http:\/\/fortoffee.org.uk\/raspberry-pi-delorean\/\" target=\"_blank\">head over to Carl&#8217;s blog to read more<\/a>\u00a0or watch the video of it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pi + Adafruit - Delorean Time Circuit and Flux Capacitor\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncXxBmbuFII?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>Happy\u00a0Back to the Future Day! In\u00a0honour of this momentous occasion, when we can expect Marty McFly to travel from the past and appear somewhere above\u00a0Hill Valley, California, I&#8217;ve decided to re-post this excellent project from Carl Monk. 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