We have entered the holiday season. raspberry pi The community has already created some beautiful holiday projects. Today we got a great project to share from the maker and developer he Omantn.Using our favorite SBC, his Raspberry Pi, he created a way to automate his wife’s model christmas village.
Omantn says his wife has been collecting models of the Christmas Village for a long time, but didn’t have a dedicated place to display them. So instead of wrestling with cables and leaving them on the shelf, Omantn went one step further and created a Pi-powered solution. This project is built around a custom his table with a system underneath that controls his LED lighting on the model.
In addition to automating electronics, Omantn has developed a custom web application that can control village functions. This web app is hosted on the Pi and contains lighting controls and buttons for controlling the train and adjusting its speed. The web app can be accessed from anywhere with a browser, so PCs, tablets and smartphones all work. It features a clean design with an overall Christmas theme.
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The whole operation is powered by a Raspberry Pi 4, but if that’s all you have on hand you can swap it out for a Raspberry Pi 3B. The Pi is connected to the LED using jumper wires and UL certified jumpers. Proximity sensors are also included, and there are plans to integrate automatic control of the lights that come on as the train moves through the village.
True to the holiday spirit of giving, Omantn chose to open source the project. Users can checkout the full source code at the following URL: Github For those who want to see how it all fits together. According to Omantn, everything was programmed using his Flask and Python.
If you want to recreate this Raspberry Pi project, or develop something similar, head over to the thread shared. reddit Show off your Christmas village and explore GitHub to see the inner workings of the code up close.
