Make your very own digital space pixel pet with your Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT. Using sensors and output devices are a great way to make your computer programs more interactive. The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT contains a whole set of sensors and opportunites.
The basic idea here is to provide the functions of a Pet Robot as a python API. Try one of these:
A note on security: Please do this in your private network only - opening ports to the internet is not advisable.
A note on privacy: The speech services uses the Google text-to-speech api. Don't let it say anything private.
As well as a Raspberry Pi 4, the usual peripherals, and an up-to-date SD card you'll also need:
- Wifi
- Sense HAT
- USB-powered speakers with a 3.5mm jack
- Some scrap wood, screws etc. and creative children
- Sense HAT for Python 3
- python 3 pypng
- 8x8GridDraw / photoshop or equivalent
- Go to the worksheet
- Printable workshop worksheet based on this resource
Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:
Interactive Pixel Pet by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/pixel-pet