Raspbery Pi based Arcade Machine FTC Payment Proof of concept
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I love all this. Who was the guy paying his children’s pocket money in FTC? would be a great way to regulate video game use haha.
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Its pay day on Tuesday so will order the parts then.
I can see integrating the screen will be my biggest challenge, but there are a lot of great ‘howtos’ around on the web
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Another Raspberry PI, that can be dedicated to this project has been purchased along with the screen.
I’m guessing I will now have a 1 to 2 week wait for them to arrive from the USA before I can continue my build.
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I think Raspberry PI’s are made in the UK now (Although the original runs were made in china I believe)
EDIT: yep Wales - http://www.raspberrypi.org/tag/made-in-the-uk/ :)
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Yes Raspberry Pis have been made in the UK for some time now, but the display I wanted I had to buy from Adafruit and I needed another Pi so bought it from them and a few other parts to spread the cost of the postage.
Tracking says I should get everything mid next week.
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I think Raspberry PI’s are made in the UK now (Although the original runs were made in china I believe)
EDIT: yep Wales - http://www.raspberrypi.org/tag/made-in-the-uk/ :)
Yes they are, be very careful if you have one of the early ones that was made in china as they are nowhere near as reliable for some reason… I had loads of problems on one of my projects due to this and as soon as I switched it out for a UK built Pi everything started to work out again :-
This is also worth looking into http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28263659 depending on what interfaces you are after, a little less power consumption would be good for a couple of my devices as they run from batteries
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This is also worth looking into http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28263659 depending on what interfaces you are after, a little less power consumption would be good for a couple of my devices as they run from batteries
Thats just so typical.
Just a few hours before I ordered a new Pi, they released a new and improved model and I ordered the older model. >:(
Extra USB ports is definitely nice, makes it much easier to use wireless with a keyboard and mouse
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Yay! Got it working :)
I am going to use this at a job interview on Monday. It covers a lot of things they need me for:
http://balgehacked.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/10-cryptocurrency-pinball-mod/
All in all a $10 mod to the pinball machine.
@tmuir12, I am looking forward to your version. The LCD screen will be a must have i guess. If there is anything i can help you with, please drop me a line ;)
Happy hacking!
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Wow that’s great work well done. And what a great blog too. :)
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Cool!
I found it took about 1 minute 20 seconds for the credit to reach my Pi, so about the same time as yours.
Your solution is definitely cheaper than mine, well done!
I hope to have the screen and my new Pi some time next week, so by next weekend I might of made some more progress.
I have been thinking that being able to prepay for credits would also be useful ut I’m not sure whether this would be within my coding skill.
The idea they pay in advance and get a QR code that could be printed out, or displayed on a phone and using a Raspbery Pi camera in theory it should be able to scan it and then add the credits straight away, but that is just an idea at the moment, not completely sure how to implement it
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Wow that’s great work well done. And what a great blog too. :)
+1
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I receive my new Raspberry Pi and LCD screen today.
Have just finished installing Raspbian on it, and now I’m about to put the display together and then will probably spend the next couple of hours following this tutorial from Adafruit to get the display going
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Model B+ looks very good. Nice improvements indeed.
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Yes shame I didn’t know it was available and just ordered the regular model B.
I’ve got the display hooked up and everything on the Raspbery is going well, but I’ve hit a snag as teh feathercoin wallet app won’t read QR codes off my screen whilst my other QR reader app does
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Display i installed and working.
Have some basic code to display the QR code and a simple off line message when it can’t reach the API.
Tomorrow night I will attempt to put all the coding together and by using my other QR scanner on my phone and pasting in the address into my wallet I can get around the issue of the scanner not working in my FTC wallet…
Will hopefully get some photos and maybe a video up tomorrow.
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Very excited.
I think I’ve got everything read to test stage 2 of the project, just need to load some ftc onto my phone and do the video, video may be up later tonight or tomorrow night.
I’ve also added some extra code as I realised if the API was not contactable when the Pi first started after the API comes online it would put free credits on the machine.
This problem is now fixed
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Stage 2 tested, and the video on youtube.
This time I sent enough for 2 credits to show you can pay for more than one credit at a time and it will just count then down and add them to the machine.
Here is the link to the Video.
I’ll put the code up on GitHub tomorrow
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Looks fantastic Tony! You are really fast developer ;)
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It helps when the whole thing is less than 100 lines of code.
I’ve only just started to learn Python, but I can see why everyone says its great for fast development
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Wow that’s looking great. That’s some fast progress well done!!
