After receiving multiple sugestions that a nodemcu would be better, I went and ordered a couple of ESB8266 boards. My reasons for picking up these instead of something from Arduino is posibility to use Python and the price. The main construction is the same as the one with Raspberry pi except for upgraded battery pack …

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It was made mostly because I had the parts laying around and I wanted to make something my son would enjoy. The reason for using a Raspberry pi zero is because I have a few of them laying around. Two main reasons for why this is a bad setup, battery consumption and having to ssh into the pi to start the program unless …

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