Sharing some interesting Easter-themed projects from the Raspberry Pi community.
Egg-painting robot
Teacher Klaus Rabeder designed and built a robot that his students programmed using Python to make the robot able to paint Easter eggs. Each student proposed their own design and then programmed the robot. The robot can draw letters and numbers, patterns, and images (like Easter bunnies) on the eggs. Each student can take home their designed egg.
The machine has three axes of motion: one rotates the egg, another rotates the pen to move it up and down, and the last controls the servo motor that places the pen tip on the egg’s surface. Each servo system is connected to two pens. There are springs between the servo and the pen to ensure that too much pressure is not applied.
A cool way to practice computer lessons!
Digital Easter egg hunt
Why search for chocolate eggs in a race against time when they can melt when you can digitize it? Our own Alex made this quick and easy game using Raspberry Pi, some wires, and simple code. Just open the chocolate egg packaging, then rewrap it with the foil side out to make it more conductive. The wires form a circuit, and when the circuit is closed with the foil-wrapped egg, the Raspberry Pi reveals the location of a larger chocolate egg.
Incubate baby chicks
This project ensures proper incubation of eggs to help hatch them. Producer Dennis Hejselbak added a live streaming camera so he and other chick enthusiasts can monitor the hatching process at any time.