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The Goodbye Machine: Automate Your Goodbyes

Made by 8BitsAndAByte / Art / Music / Robotics

About the project

Easily tell people how you feel with a machine!

Project info

Difficulty: Easy

Platforms: Adafruit, Raspberry Pi

Estimated time: 4 days

License: GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL3+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

	Mini External USB Stereo Speaker	x 1
	mg995	x 2
	Massive Arcade LED Blue Button	x 1
	Massive Arcade LED Blue Button	x 1
	Raspberry Pi 3 Model B	x 1

Software apps and online services

Dremel 4300

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Soldering iron (generic)

x 1

Story

Full Video

The Goodbye Machine, a machine to automate goodbyes.

The green button, for all the people you like and will miss. James Blunt's - Goodbye My Lover plays.

The red button, for all the people you won't miss whatsoever. Lily Allen's song Fuck You plays.

Bonus! The guts off the machine.

Code

Untitled file

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import os

# GPIO.setmode(GPIO. BOARD)
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(3,GPIO.OUT)

pwm = GPIO.PWM(3,60)
pwm.start(0)

GPIO.setup(21, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)
GPIO.setup(20, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP)


def setAngle(angle):

    duty = angle / 18 + 2
    GPIO.output(3,True)
    pwm.ChangeDutyCycle(duty)
    sleep(1)
    GPIO.output(3,False)
    pwm.ChangeDutyCycle(0)


def fuckYou():
    os.system('sudo mplayer -volume 60 /home/pi/Desktop/goodbey-i-nator/FuckYou.wav &')


def playSweetGoodbey():
    os.system('sudo mplayer -volume 60 /home/pi/Desktop/goodbey-i-nator/GoodBye.wav &')

while True:
    input_state_green = GPIO.input(21)
    input_state_red = GPIO.input(20)

    if input_state_green == False:
        playSweetGoodbey()
        time.sleep(0.2)
    elif input_state_red == False:
        fuckYou()
        time.sleep(0.2)

pwm.stop()
GPIO.cleanup()

Credits

8BitsAndAByte

We’re Dane & Nicole, two makers that create tremendously terrible tech, which we happily share with you on our channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitsandabyte

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