GeekCon is by far the best conference I have ever participated in.
If you are not that familiar about GeekCon, so shortly, once every year, around September we gather from all around Israel and outside of it, a bunch of heavy geeks, makers, developers, scientists and crazy technology savvy people to build crazy projects, non profit for a full weekend. Learn more.
Some examples from this year 2025, a robotic Lama that follows you and spit on you, a huge keyboard and a missile defense system that throws chairs on missiles, and more ...
This year, I went to GeekCon with my son and from his choosing we have decided to build an arcade machine, with a rhythm game. You need to press the buttons by the rhythm
The spec was like this:
- Writing the game (rhythm machine game) in Python
- Running the game on a Raspberry Pi (Version 5)
- Connecting the buttons and reading the buttons state on the RaspberryPi
- Using the buttons in the game
- Building the arcade box itself (+printing buttons)
- We 3D printed buttons for Arcade Machine here
Get and see the code (Pyhton) here (on github)
Here are some photos from the conference itself:
Here are some past event projects from GeekCon I have made:
#geekcon #raspberrypi #pyhon #arcade #opensource
