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A Raspberry Pi magical cauldron that reacts to dropped items
A first Raspberry Pi project: Claude Code wrote the software and advised on wiring and parts for a cauldron with an IR beam sensor and lights.
Credits
- Reddit poster michaelaalcorn Source ↗
- Repository account airalcorn2 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
This is the poster's first custom Raspberry Pi project: a plastic cauldron set into a table, with a hole through the bottom that lets dropped items fall into a tray past an IR beam sensor. Breaking the beam triggers the lights around the cauldron lip to flash, among other effects.
The poster refined the idea with Gemini, then Claude Code wrote the software and guided the physical setup, such as how to connect things to the Pi and what to buy. They say their own supervision and software expertise were still needed, and that Claude was weaker on "physical" questions. The design and code are open source.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Raspberry Pi Magical CauldronReddit poster: michaelaalcornPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Raspberry Pi Magical Cauldron (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: airalcorn2
The project on GitHub.