Internet of Things XMas Devices

Here it is, hardware all done

IoT-Xmas-Devices

This year it is powered by two devices, a Raspberry Pi on a Red Board and an Arduino on a black board.

IoT-XMas-LCD

The Raspberry Pi will drive these three message boards, a naughty and nice list will scroll through Santa’s list.

I bigger display will show Christmas messages during the holidays.

IoT-DaysTillXMas

I had to darken the photo, but this display shows how many days and hours till Christmas.

IoT-PoweredByArduinoandRPi

Its weird, but there are reasons why I went to two devices.  The Pi can actually do things a lot more securely, but I started work on the Arduino.  I could not get the countdown working properly on the Pi so I left it on the Arduino.  Silver lining is it showcased both boards.

The nice thing about the pi is I can access it and program it directly.  The Arduino would have had to access the “cloud” to get updates.

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