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title: "Raspberry pi, Arduino, Motors, and Candy"
date: "2019-12-04T18:17:25Z"
slug: "we-surprised-her-with-another-motorized-advent-calendar"
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description: "My 16-month-old daughter and I built an advent calendar for her mother for Christmas. It uses a linear actuator and an iPhone app to push out a box of candy each day. "
tags: ['iot','raspberry pi', 'arduino', 'microcontroller', 'internet of things']
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My 16-month-old daughter and I built an advent calendar for her mother for Christmas. It uses a linear actuator and an iPhone app to push out a box of candy each day. 

Check out my advent calendar video from last year: [https://youtu.be/Mbtjb1aTHU4](https://youtu.be/Mbtjb1aTHU4)

We used a linear actuator, arduino nano, motor driver l298n, and raspberry pi zero w. Leave me a comment if you want to know any other details about how I built it.

• All of my projects: [https://sammeechward.com/category/articles/](https://sammeechward.com/category/articles/)
• My website: [https://sammeechward.com](https://sammeechward.com)
• Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/meech_ward/](https://www.instagram.com/meech_ward/)

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Credits:

Jingle Bells 7 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/))
Artist: [http://incompetech.com/](http://incompetech.com/)

Hip Hop Christmas by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/))
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/