{"id":18715,"date":"2018-04-07T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18715"},"modified":"2018-04-07T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:32:04","slug":"awesome-blinky-filled-interactive-kids-control-panel-uses-a-raspberry-pi-for-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18715","title":{"rendered":"Awesome, blinky-filled interactive kid&#8217;s control panel uses a Raspberry Pi for control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18716\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?resize=260%2C260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/activity_board.jpg?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MichMich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Teeuw<\/a> has done a fantastic job on this interactive control panel for his son, Enzo. It uses a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi along with several other components including replacing LEDs inside buttons with Neopixels, an Adafruit Speaker Bonnet and a rotary encoder with Neopixel circle surround. It&#8217;s even got 3D printing and lasercutting, making it a Maker&#8217;s dream project. It&#8217;s amazing, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelteeuw.nl\/post\/159423791112\/activity-board-enzos-control-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">start reading his blog posts about the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Teeuw has done a fantastic job on this interactive control panel for his son, Enzo. It uses a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi along with several other components including replacing LEDs inside buttons with Neopixels, an Adafruit Speaker&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18715\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,55,80,22,20,50],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-18715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-arduino","category-blinkies","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-making","tag-control-panel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Awesome, blinky-filled interactive kid&#039;s control panel uses a Raspberry Pi for control - 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=18715\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Awesome, blinky-filled interactive kid&#039;s control panel uses a Raspberry Pi for control - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Teeuw has done a fantastic job on this interactive control panel for his son, Enzo. 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