Kids traffic light, with Raspberry Pi Zero W

Kids traffic light, with Raspberry Pi Zero W

As the weather is warming up here in Norway — my kids have gotten their bikes out. To make it more fun, both for them and me, I figured I’d build a series of traffic signals that they could play with.

I first started with a traffic light, simple — red, yellow and green. To control it I am using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, this will allow me to make it communicate on Wi-Fi and MQTT later.

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Making a simple LEGO LED street light

Making a simple LEGO LED street light

My twins and I both like LEGO, and LEDs. I figured I’d make some simple LED street lights that we could use to build a LEGO scenery.

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I made a garden playhouse for the kids — with LED lights

I made a garden playhouse for the kids — with LED lights

I built a garden playhouse, for the kids, and of course it needed some LED lights.

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Modifying a noisy SOS station kids toy

Modifying a noisy SOS station kids toy

A while back my kids got this SOS station toy, it came with a few emergency cars and the boys quite liked it. My girl friend and myself however; hated it, it had a speaker and made a high siren sound and an annoying voice would shout things like “all cars respond”. So I modified it; ripped out the speaker and mounted a few LEDs instead, so now it flashes but no sound.

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Mounting blue emergency LEDs on kids’ walking car

Mounting blue emergency LEDs on kids' walking car

My two twin boys are pretty into Fireman Sam these days, so the red walking car they got when they were babies got an upgrade. Four blue self-flashing LEDs, a toggle switch and a 2xAA battery holder; everything bought cheap on eBay. And voila! A fire truck with blue emergency lights.

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