Hack a toy with the Raspberry Pi: Part 2

Embed your hacks into your toy and create the code to bring it to life

In part one of this ‘hack a toy’ tutorial you created four hacks that were originally used to augment a £3 R2D2 sweet dispenser making it light up, vibrate, play music and stream a live web feed to a mobile device. You may have been working on your own features to use and customise your toy. Part two of this tutorial begins by showing two different ways to set up and use a button to trigger your hacks. One method is to add and code your own button, the second method is to utilise the toy’s own built-in button. The next part walks you through how to wire up, code and test each of the individual features before combining them into a single program which will bring your toy to…

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