{"id":16374,"date":"2017-02-09T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:52:01","slug":"maketronix-alarm-system-for-the-raspberry-pi-gets-gpio-zero-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16374","title":{"rendered":"Maketronix Alarm system for the Raspberry Pi gets GPIO Zero software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maketronix_alarm.jpg?resize=479%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maketronix_alarm.jpg?w=479&amp;ssl=1 479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maketronix_alarm.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maketronix_alarm.jpg?resize=260%2C177&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maketronix_alarm.jpg?resize=160%2C109&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Maketronix Alarm kit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/maketronix-alarm-diy-raspberry-pi-alarm-education#\/\" target=\"_blank\">fully-funded on IndieGoGo<\/a>. It is an add-on board and sensor for the Raspberry Pi that allows you to put together your own movement-activated alarm system. It comes with educational material that can be used in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Finding that the material doesn&#8217;t use the (much easier) <a href=\"https:\/\/gpiozero.readthedocs.io\" target=\"_blank\">GPIO Zero<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdhayler\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hayler<\/a> set about writing his own GPIO Zero version of the software.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/02\/maketronix-alarm-and-gpiozero-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at Richard&#8217;s post here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topshed\/MakeTronix-Alarm-Gpiozero\" target=\"_blank\">his code on GitHub here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Maketronix Alarm kit was fully-funded on IndieGoGo. 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It comes with educational material that can be used&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16374\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,20,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maketronix Alarm system for the Raspberry Pi gets GPIO Zero software - 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=16374\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maketronix Alarm system for the Raspberry Pi gets GPIO Zero software - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recently, the Maketronix Alarm kit was fully-funded on IndieGoGo. 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