{"id":14289,"date":"2016-03-08T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:13:35","slug":"whack-a-pi-raspberry-pi-gaming-writ-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14289","title":{"rendered":"Whack-a-Pi &#8211; Raspberry Pi gaming writ large"},"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\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160229_224422-767x1024.jpg?resize=560%2C748\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carl Monk brought along this great game to the Big Birthday Weekend. Basically, each large arcade button lights up and you hit it with your hand to score a point. With a Raspberry Pi detecting hits and playing\u00a0the Mission: Impossible theme to time each game, it was one of the hits of the event. <em>I think my score was 114.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortoffee.org.uk\/2016\/03\/whack-a-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl&#8217;s written about the build on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Pippa from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehacklab.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">HackLab UK<\/a> playing the game:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pippa on Whack a Pi\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5e3G2eT1Ls?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>Carl Monk brought along this great game to the Big Birthday Weekend. 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