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Katja Budnikov<\/a> works for a company (shopping24) that has the occasional two-day hackfest where employees get to play around with new technology and come up with non-work related projects. (Sounds like fun!)<\/em> For the current round of hacking, Katja’s team used a Raspberry Pi, some buttons and LEDs to construct a box which would allow employees to indicate how happy they are on a particular day. The buttons trigger the illumination of LEDs in the shape of a ‘tick’ and also send messages to Graphite<\/a>, a web-based app which stores and graphs results. The code to do it is written in Python with a healthy dose of GPIO Zero thrown in for good measure. If your German is good, you can read Katja’s account of the project here<\/a>\u00a0or alternatively run it through Google Translate for the English<\/a>.\u00a0Thanks to Hackaday<\/a> for spotting this one.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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