{"id":19210,"date":"2018-11-03T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19210"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:28:23","slug":"fireworks-display-using-the-pimoroni-mote-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19210","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks display using the Pimoroni Mote on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19211\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=560%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?w=1117&amp;ssl=1 1117w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=768%2C344&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=1024%2C458&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=560%2C251&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=260%2C116&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fireworks.jpg?resize=160%2C72&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. It uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/mote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Mote (full kit)<\/a>\u00a0to appear as fireworks and then uses Pygame to play the sound of fireworks as each Mote stick &#8216;explodes&#8217; in a shower of sparkles! You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yUwhbuW_vGs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the effect in the video below<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/recantha\/fireworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the code here<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/mote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get hold of your own Mote from Pimoroni<\/a>. This is all in aid of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mkraspberryjam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam on 10th November<\/a> which is a &#8220;Fireworks Special&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireworks on the Raspberry Pi with the Pimoroni Mote\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUwhbuW_vGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. It uses the Pimoroni Mote (full kit)\u00a0to appear as fireworks and then uses Pygame to play the sound of fireworks as each Mote&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19210\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19211,"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":[80,19,50,391,39,41,51],"tags":[840,151],"class_list":["post-19210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blinkies","category-events","category-making","category-personal","category-programming","category-pi-jam","category-tutorials","tag-mote","tag-pimoroni"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fireworks display using the Pimoroni Mote on the Raspberry Pi - 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=19210\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fireworks display using the Pimoroni Mote on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. 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