Posts tagged arduino

The Hugs Strike Back!

Another year, another amazing Linux Conf AU! Based on feedback from LCA2017, I was definitely going to iterate on the hug detector. In that time the ESP32 platform has begun to mature and because I like challenges, decided to use a board I received days prior to leaving for the conference and really only flashed with blink.

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Don’t underestimate the… Doorbell

A while ago I needed a doorbell, so I hacked one together using a Raspberry Pi I had laying around. It was a temporary fix while I got around to building an Arduino based replacement. A month or so ago the SD card croaked, so it was time.

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Hacking your Conference badge for Hugs & Profit

Last week was Linux Conf AU 2017, which is a community run Free and Open Source Software conference that is in a different A/NZ city every year. This year I’d managed to attend the Open Hardware MiniConf and was inspired to build something during the conference. I’m not sure how it occurred to me to build a ‘Hug Detector’ into my Conference badge, but it did and after talking about it with some fellow delegates, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

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