{"id":13932,"date":"2015-12-20T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2015-12-20T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T10:42:12","slug":"roll-a-dice-with-the-raspberry-pi-sensehat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13932","title":{"rendered":"Roll a dice with the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RaspberryPi dice\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfP-R6ArMSk?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<p>Giles Booth has followed up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13925\" target=\"_blank\">his previous work with the SenseHAT<\/a>\u00a0to create a dice rolling device. The SenseHAT detects G-forces via the\u00a0onboard accelerometer and then, when a tolerance is breached,\u00a0the Pi generates a random number which is displayed on the SenseHAT&#8217;s LED matrix. A nice, tidy piece of programming and very useful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2015\/12\/raspberrypi-dice-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the detail and code here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giles Booth has followed up his previous work with the SenseHAT\u00a0to create a dice rolling device. 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