{"id":13958,"date":"2015-12-31T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2016-10-14T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:29:17","slug":"track-the-next-high-tide-with-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13958","title":{"rendered":"Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ProtoPal-7-segment-display.png?resize=560%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protoboards.co.uk\/2014\/11\/ProtoPal.html\" target=\"_blank\">ProtoPal<\/a>) and the components contained in the <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2015\/how-to-drive-a-7-segment-display-directly-on-raspberry-pi-in-python\" target=\"_blank\">RasPiO 7 segment display kit<\/a>\u00a0and created a high tide display. It\u00a0uses a public API to get the next high tide time and then pushes that to the 7-segment display. He has also laser-cut a case to go around it. It&#8217;s a great little project and he has written it up into a tutorial with annotated code and everything you need to re-create it.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2015\/12\/raspberry-pi-high-tide-tracker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read how he did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. 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