GhostBox - the Paranormal Ghost Detection kit

Built using Raspberry Pi Pico, Pimoroni Display Pack 2.0 and some living flame LEDs

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There is a write-up of this project over at Kevsrobots.com - https://www.kevsrobots.com/blog/ghostbox.html where you can also download the STL files, and find the bill of materials.

There are 4 files that will need copying over to the Pico:

• ghostbox.jpg
• ghostbox.py
• ghostwords.txt
• gui.py

How to copy files to a Pico using Thonny

1. Download Thonny IDE onto your computer.
2. Set Thonny to standard mode by clicking the Switch to regular mode link at the top right of the screen.
3. Quit Thonny and start it again to change it into Regular Mode
4. Make sure you can see the files on your computer and also on Thonny; Click the View menu and make sure Files option is selected.
5. Right Click the ghostbox.py file from the Files list and then select upload to \ - this will copy the ghostbox.py module to the Pico
6. Right Click the gui.py file from the Files list and then select upload to \ - this will copy the gui.py module to the Pico
7. Right Click the ghostbox.jpg file from the Files list and then select upload to \ - this will copy the ghostbox.jpg module to the Pico
8. Right Click the ghostwords.txt file from the Files list and then select upload to \ - this will copy the ghostwords.txt module to the Pico

You can make the Pico automatically launch the ghostbox.py code by renaming it to main.py on the Pico.

How to rename ghostbox.py to main

1. Right Click the ghostbox.py file from the Files list and then select rename
2. Change the name to main.py
3. Right Click the main.py file from the Files list and then select upload to \ - this will copy the main.py module to the Pico

You can also add more words to the ghostwords.txt to increase the vocabulary.ß

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