raspberrypilearning / spinning-flower-wheel

Create a digital landscape with your Raspberry Pi by making an electronic garden of spinning flowers, pinwheels and even some bees! Who said gardening was difficult?

Spinning Flower Wheel

Create a digital landscape with your Raspberry Pi by making an electronic garden of spinning flowers, pinwheels, and even some bees! Who said gardening was difficult?

Check out this video for the inspiration behind this resource.

Requirements

As well as a Raspberry Pi with an SD card loaded with Raspbian, you'll also need:

Hardware

• An Explorer HAT Pro
• A geared motor (we use geared motors purchased from Pimoroni)
• A wheel (we use moon buggy wheels purchased from Pimoroni)
• Male-to-female jumper cables
• A paper cup
• Coloured paper to create flowers or pinwheels
• Scissors
• Glue
• Blu Tack
• Push pins

Software

• Explorer HAT Python Library

For more information on checking you have these packages installed, and how to install them, see the software installation page.

Worksheet

You will need to follow the steps in the worksheet below.

• worksheet
• (Optional) Final version of Python code spinning-flower.py

Licence

Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:

Spinning Flower Wheel by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/spinning-flower-wheel