RaspberryPi-powered multi-purpose horse

• Can play audio on demand
• Can upload more sounds (currently only mp3 and wav supplorted)
• Plays welcome sound when someone comes in
• Turns sound down for the night (0:00 ~ 10:00)

Hardware used:

• RaspberryPi B+
• USB-powered speakers
• 2 PIR motion sensors
• Long 4-line wire
• Horse mask, scarf, cowboy hat

With slight modifications should work on any linux system, not tested on anything except Debian

Requires node.js and

• express
• multer

Dependencies: npm install

Run: node horse-web.js

Requires python 2.7.3+

• RPi.GPIO
• requests

Dependencies: sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Run: python horse-welcome.py

Put horseweb and horsewelcome files into /etc/init.d system folder and create runlevel symlinks:

sudo update-rc.d servicename defaults 

Puts your horse to sleep for nighttime so it will not make any sounds.

Put sleepyhorse.cron into /etc/cron.d and restart crond

• grevory/bootstrap-file-input
• Speech Script by Dan Fountain
• chovy/node-startup