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It's fun and all but is it really practical? If you have more than two people in a room, it should turn off only when both are blinking at the same time, which
by uyt 5y ago
It's fun and all but is it really practical? If you have more than two people in a room, it should turn off only when both are blinking at the same time, which should basically be never?
- Santosh83 5y agoNot to mention it will kill the lifetime of the bulb.
- kenniskrag 5y agoalso with LED? I though you reduce the light by letting then blink really fast.
- pmx 5y agoVariable brightness with an LED is achieved using pulse width modulation, turning it on and off REALLY fast. So no, this won't have any effect on the life of the LED :)
- zenexer 5y agoNot for LED bulbs, as far as I know. That’s certainly true for incandescent, but I don’t think this experiment would work well with incandescent anyway.
- Hendrikto 5y agoAlso: How much electricity is conserved by turning off the light bulbs for 200ms every few seconds VS how much energy is expanded by running a webcam + CV program constantly? It’s probably less energy efficient overall.
- MR4D 5y agoI suppose it will be for Facebook or any advertising firm that wants to push it to the next level of getting into your head.
- adrianN 5y agoIt's clearly not practical. I would assume that the "smart" overhead consumes a lot more electricity than you could save by turning them off for a couple of minutes a day. But it is really fun.
- throw1234651234 5y agoThis is resume-driven-development, except with IoT rather than K8S, Terraform, and AI. Shard a DB w/ 1000 records, put your 3 page website in a Terraform config transpiling down to an Azure .yaml config defining K8S micro-services running in the Cloud - the machine spins up every time the lights blink out for 200MS!