To pop balloons you might usually use a pin. Here you’ll be doing the same, but using a GPIO ‘Pin’ on your Raspberry Pi, not the pin you might be thinking of!

As well as a Raspberry Pi with an SD card loaded with Raspbian, you'll also need:

• 1 x Solderless breadboard
• 4 x Male-to-female jumper leads
• 7 x Male-to-male jumper leads
• 1 x Push-to-make switch
• 1 x Battery snap
• 4m x 2 Core speaker cable (bell wire)
• Some 12R resistors
• 2 x BC635 transistors

• Red electrical tape
• Black electrical tape
• String
• Balloons
• 9 volt battery
• Wire strippers or scissors

• Worksheet

Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:

Balloon Pi-tay Popper by Fran Scott and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/balloon-pi-tay-popper