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I've made some interesting projects over the years - only a writeup on a few of these, and some are in pieces and in various states of disrepair after moving so
by hlfshell 7y ago
I've made some interesting projects over the years - only a writeup on a few of these, and some are in pieces and in various states of disrepair after moving so much.
Some write ups on larger projects:
1. I used a raspberry pi to coordinate the firing of multiple cameras, and then had the pi upload to a cloud service that would stitch them together to an "infinite zoom" super selfie. https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/gigasnap- https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/gigasnap-
a-prototyping-story-efed72099d32
2. I created a library that made it dead simple for a raspberry pi to communicate to arduinos, and used that to control a lot of hardware projects, like little robots. https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/serial-synapse-94a114aa271e https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/serial-synapse-94a114aa2...
3. Raspberry Pi's controlled the heartbeat detection (controlled lights and music of your booth) and conductive paint controller (I built it and still don't understand the meaning) for this art piece. https://vimeo.com/207047769 https://vimeo.com/207047769
4. I had a video / text message doorbell a couple of apartments ago. https://github.com/hlfshell/doorbell https://github.com/hlfshell/doorbell
5. Used one as an MQTT hub for numerous IoT projects. I created https://github.com/hlfshell/mqtt-scheduler https://github.com/hlfshell/mqtt-scheduler to schedule MQTT jobs for things like the arduino powered garden controller (lights + water pumps) I built for my wife. https://github.com/hlfshell/garden-relay https://github.com/hlfshell/garden-relay
6. This never got off the ground, but when Pokemon Go had first launched and was super popular, I wrote a slackbot that would alert everyone in the office when pokemon (outside of the super common Rattatas and Pidgeots) was nearby. I was repurposing that code to make a portable Pokemon radar that would jump a false account around the area around you, thus hunting down pokemon for you. https://github.com/hlfshell/pokemon-tracker https://github.com/hlfshell/pokemon-tracker It never got far as the game got super stale quick.
- lloydpick 7y agoDisney now have exactly what you described in your first project as a photo opportunity at the Magic Kingdom. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/05/enjoy-new-disney-photopass-experiences-at-walt-disney-world-resort/ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/05/enjoy-new-dis...
- hlfshell 7y agoNice! Thanks for the link. Our goal was to hit a cool shot a mile away on a target in the middle of a giant concert for a "I was there!" memento shot. Good to see it in practice somewhere. Unfortunately the sales team didn't understand it, and what sales team doesn't understand sales team doesn't sell. ...I'm very happily in another company that gets tech - but man I wish we could have sold that project. The effect was really cool when we had it working fine.
- NSAID 7y agoThe infinite zoom project is really interesting. I'm shocked that it never got picked up! The use cases you describe sound incredibly obvious for big events.
- vmurthy 7y agoGreat projects. I tried clicking the link for 1. Looks like some of the URL is truncated. You may want to update the link :-) This worked for me : https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/gigasnap-a-prototyping-story-efed72099d32 https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/gigasnap-a-prototyping-s...