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Make an infra-red Santa detector

No more propping your eyes open with matchsticks to try and catch Santa! This Scratch program uses a low-cost, infra-red detector to set off an alarm when Santa sneaks into your room. It's a great introduction to using simple sensors on the Raspberry Pi, and can be adapted to lots of different projects.

What you will need

Hardware

  • A Raspberry Pi with an SD card loaded with the latest version of Raspbian
  • A passive infra-red detector (try eBay)
  • Three female-to-female header leads

Software

  • Scratch

Worksheet & included files

Hour of Code

This is an Hour of Code activity

Licence

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

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Santa Detector 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/santa-detector