UDOO NEO Kickstarter Tracker

Kickstarter Tracker with UDOO NEO

This a simple KS tracking project that uses UDOO NEO's application core with a little server written in Python and an Arduino sketch that runs on the M4 processor.

Features

• 3 status menus
• Total pledged status
• Total backers
• Time left to back the project
• Buzzes when pledged total changes
• Shows temporally how much pledge difference between updates
• Check KS in a fixed delay

Circuit

Bill of Material

This project needs:

• UDOO NEO
• LCD 16x2 Hitachi HD44780 compatible
• Piezo Buzzer
• Button
• 10kΩ Resistor
• 10kΩ Pot
• Breadboard wires

Usage

Flash the precompiled sketch into the UDOO Neo or compile & flash from source(change header for a different project).

Install dipendences: # apt install python3 python3-pycurl python3-serial python3-bs4 python3-html5lib

Execute the server ks_neo.py editing the config variables at the top of the script. By default it monitors the UDOO X86 Kickstarter page.

Install

If you want to make it start at boot, and if you're using UDOObuntu2rc2, install the service file neo_ks.conf in /etc/init/, and ks_neo.py in /usr/bin.

Have fun!

Written under GPL licence