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Philippe Chretien

Software developer by day and evening maker. I love electronic, woodworking ans astronomy.

Montréal, Canada
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This user joined on 08/15/2014.

Things I've Built

Wireless Arduino/XBee Game Controller

For this project I built a wireless controller to play games. This demo uses a game writted with PyGame, an arduino ans XBee wireless modules.

Twitter Controlled Robot

I presented this project at the 28th Montréal Python meeting. The objective of this project was to demonstrate the use of pyserial and XBee to wirelessly control a robot with tweets. This project was also my first attempt at using Tweepy lib.

Quiz Buzzer System

Last Christmas I built a Quiz Buzzer System for my mother. She is a big fan of television quizzes and love to organize some with her friends and family. You can choose your team buzzer sound from a list 30 digital sounds.

“Scary” Stuffed Monkey

Convert a cheap stuffed monkey into a scary monkey with red bright eyes and playing a spooky melody! This post details the building process. I hope you’ll enjoy!

RGB Lamp Controlled by RFID

I built an interactive RGB lamp. The lamp has no switch and no dimmer, it’s entirely controlled with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The RFID reader is hidden in the lamp body and the RFID tags are embedded in colored wooden disks.

Motion Detector Box

The project ended up as a motion detector lamp. Combined with a small python script running on a computer, it locks the computer when motion is detected. Of course, what the python script does when motion is detected is up to you.

Score Display Box

A few years back I built a Quiz Buzzer System for my mother. She loves it but she is still keeping track of scores using a pencil and a piece of paper. I decided to fix that using an Adafruit Trinket microcontroller board, a 4 digits 7 segments

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