To pop balloons you might usually use a pin. Here you’ll be doing the same, but using a GPIO pin on your Raspberry Pi, not the pin you might be thinking of!
As well as a Raspberry Pi with an SD card loaded with Raspbian, you'll also need:
- 1 x Solderless breadboard
- 4 x Pin-to-socket jumper leads
- 7 x Pin-to-pin jumper leads
- 1 x Push-to-make switch
- 1 x Battery snap
- 2 x 4m core speaker cable (bell wire)
- Some 12R resistors
- 2 x BC635 transistors
- Red electrical tape
- Black electrical tape
- String
- Balloons
- 9 volt battery
- Wire strippers or scissors
Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:
Balloon Pi-tay popper by Fran Scott and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/balloon-pi-tay-popper