{"id":18848,"date":"2018-05-25T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:52:43","slug":"a-book-that-talks-back-to-you-in-arnies-voice-controlled-by-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18848","title":{"rendered":"A book that talks back to you in Arnie’s voice – controlled by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan Aldred runs a Raspberry Pi club and asked the kids what they wanted to create. They replied that they wanted to make a book that talks to you, or rather\u00a0demands<\/em> that you read it. First of all, they got hold of a book to do it with: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s biography! The game was afoot!<\/p>\n

They wired up a distance sensor to detect the proximity of a possible reader and a red LED in Arnie’s ‘eye’ on the cover to glow red if the person ignores the voice which emanates from a Bluetooth speaker. They used a tilt switch to detect movement of the book, which triggers more sounds and also cut a hole in many pages of the book to hide the Raspberry Pi and battery.<\/p>\n

Not quite sure how cutting a load of pages out encourages you to read the book, but I guess you could do it so that it reads an electronic copy to you!<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see the book in action below and read more over on Hackster.io<\/a>:<\/p>\n