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Let’s recreate the Simon game of the 1980s using a Raspberry Pi and Sonic Pi!

After watching Scott Fradkin live-code Sonic Pi for an hour at a conference, it inspired me to make a little music of my own.

I was flipping through The MagPi back-issues and came across an article about setting up a virtual Raspberry Pi environment. It got me thinking… I’ve been playing around a lot on the Pi itself, but it’d be nice to experiment with code even when I don’t have access to a physical Pi.

Let’s learn how to flash an LED on the Raspberry Pi when someone sends us a new email.

I created a morse code generator before based on entering a string at the console. Now I extended it to generate a message by clicking a button.

When you start out creating circuits with the Raspberry Pi and its GPIO pins, there’s an unexpected but important concept to understand, called “floating”. To adjust for it, you need to understand how to use pullup and pulldown resistors.

Making the Pi blink an LED a few times is thrilling, but what about building something.. more? Let’s build a morse code transmitter!

I unboxed my Raspberry Pi a few weeks ago and started learning Python. Let’s code the “Hello World” of the Pi, and make an LED blink.

Last summer, I found this “Smithsonian Motor-Works” set at a garage sale. Once built, it models a 4-stroke internal combustion engine. I’d shelved it for a rainy day and rediscovered it last weekend while cleaning the basement. Time for a little father/son bonding!

I made my first OSS contributions during HacktoberFest, gaining experience (and swag!) with the help of DigitalOcean and GitHub. :)