The Raspberry Pi Advent Calendar that Dispenses Chocolate!
The modern Raspberry Pi + LEGO approach to Advent calendars is awesome.
3 min readDec 15, 2022
The temptation of chocolate is ever-present in our lives. No matter how hard we try to hold out, no matter our convictions… at the end of the day, chocolate is just plain sinfully delicious. But that’s where technology can step in to save us from ourselves.
This Raspberry Pi uses the Build HAT with attached LEGO components to create the perfect method of controlled chocolate delivery. Inventor Richard Hayler realized that his incredibly clever children would nick all the chocolates on December the 1st, then carefully close all the doors of the Advent calendar afterward. Naturally, Richard set out to solve this problem with the world’s smallest and most versatile computer.
