StoryBox is an engaging and entertaining device designed for children. Built on a Raspberry Pi foundation, StoryBox incorporates an RFID reader to play audio stories, songs, and playlists, offering a delightful listening experience without screens.
The StoryBox repository encompasses the entire source code for this inventive hardware project centered on a Raspberry Pi. Designed to captivate children's imagination, StoryBox utilizes an RFID reader to recognize story, song, album, and playlist cards, and it features integrated speakers to deliver the associated audio content.
Alongside the hardware components, this project incorporates various software applications, including a startup application to inform users when the hardware is ready, and a Go-based server that facilitates communication with the RFID reader.
The hardware installation shell scripts reside in a separate repository: StoryBoxShellScripts
Below are images of the development hardware assembled for this project:
To set up the project on your Raspberry Pi Zero, please follow these steps:
- Fork the repository.
- Install git on your Raspberry Pi Zero by executing this command in your terminal:
sudo apt install git- Clone your fork into the directory /home/pi/ by executing the following commands in your terminal. Please make sure to replace
[GIT_USER]with your own git username.:
cd /home/pi
git clone git@github.com:[GIT_USER]/StoryBox.git- Access the /home/pi/Storybox/ directory and ensure that install.sh is executable by running these commands in your terminal:
cd Storybox/
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh- After your Raspberry Pi Zero reboots, run this command to verify that the SPI interface is enabled:
lsmod | grep spiIf you see spi_bcm2835, you can proceed.
Go 1.19.2 or later
libmpdclient-dev
gcc
meson
ninja-build
sqlite3
python3
mpc
mpd
mpg123
libasound2-dev
git
The project depends on a SQLite3 database named rfids.db.
- For any inquiries, please reach out to the repo owner @ozfive
This program is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.