https://github.com/thompson318/birthdaycandles

Blow them out
https://github.com/thompson318/birthdaycandles

birthday flask magpi python raspberry-pi

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Blow them out

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thompson318/birthdaycandles
• Owner: thompson318
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2021-05-19T20:07:25.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-04T20:34:45.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T07:29:49.579Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: birthday, flask, magpi, python, raspberry-pi
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://thompson318.github.io/BirthdayCandles/
• Size: 48.8 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
Virtual Cake

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.. image:: https://github.com/thompson318/BirthdayCandles/raw/main/doc/20210605_152438.jpg

   :width: 640px

   :target: https://github.com/thompson318/BirthdayCandles

   :alt: Cake, Real and Virtual

Author: Stephen Thompson

When confronted with the need to avoid children blowing out candles on an actual cake, 

the obvious solution was to build a virtual cake, with on screen candles controlled 

by a set of wind turbines. Here it is, as featured in the `MagPi`_, the future of cake.

The project utilises a `Raspberry Pi`_, an analogue to digital converter(ADC)

like this one 

from `BC-Robotics`_, and a set of DC turbines, like these from `Sntieecr`_. 

The software here consists of a Python library (main.py) to query the voltages on the 

ADC in response to POST requests from a javascript front end (static/happybirthday.js).

We use `Flask`_ to create a web application overlaying various animations to 

give the appearance that blowing on the wind turbines blows out the on screen candles, 

shown above rendered with `Minecraft`_. 

.. figure:: https://github.com/thompson318/BirthdayCandles/raw/main/doc/20210608_111525.jpg

   :width: 480px

   :alt: Under the Cake

   

   Under the cake, the Raspberry Pi and 16 Channel ADC HAT.

.. _`Raspberry Pi`: https://www.raspberrypi.org/

.. _`BC-Robotics`: https://bc-robotics.com/tutorials/getting-started-raspberry-pi-16-channel-adc-hat-v2/

.. _`Sntieecr`: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sntieecr-Mini-Generator-Motors-3V-12V-DC-Motor-Generator-Educational-Experiment/dp/B0922N8MCR/

.. _`Flask`: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/

.. _`Minecraft`: https://www.minecraft.net/

.. _`MagPi`: https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/virtual-minecraft-birthday-cake