{"id":18429,"date":"2018-03-05T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:22:06","slug":"make-your-own-led-sand-simulator-toy-with-adafruit-and-a-raspberry-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18429","title":{"rendered":"Make your own LED sand simulator toy with Adafruit and a Raspberry Pi Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/raspberry_pi_hero-loopB.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/raspberry_pi_hero-loopB.gif?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ruiz Brothers over at Adafruit have created a really lovely sand simulator using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer, an RGB LED matrix display, some small items and 3D-printed parts. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paintyourdragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Burgess wrote the code<\/a>\u00a0which &#8220;simulates physics by calculating collisions and terminal velocity&#8221;. The 3D-printed handles border the LED display and two buttons switch mode and reset the simulation. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/matrix-led-sand\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read a tutorial here which explains how to make your own<\/a> and see a video of it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X3Ce89f873Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruiz Brothers over at Adafruit have created a really lovely sand simulator using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer, an RGB LED matrix display, some small items and 3D-printed parts. Philip Burgess wrote the code\u00a0which &#8220;simulates physics by calculating&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18429\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18430,"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_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":[2,54,56,80,50,86,62],"tags":[198,647,648,646],"class_list":["post-18429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-accessories","category-art","category-blinkies","category-making","category-raspberry-pi-zero","category-sensors","tag-adafruit","tag-philip-burgess","tag-physics","tag-ruiz-brothers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Make your own LED sand simulator toy with Adafruit and a Raspberry Pi Zero - 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=18429\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Make your own LED sand simulator toy with Adafruit and a Raspberry Pi Zero - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ruiz Brothers over at Adafruit have created a really lovely sand simulator using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer, an RGB LED matrix display, some small items and 3D-printed parts. 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