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0 pointshlfshell6y ago0 comments

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- 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-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

4. I had a video / text message doorbell a couple of apartments ago. https://github.com/hlfshell/doorbell

5. Used one as an MQTT hub for numerous IoT projects. I created 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

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 It never got far as the game got super stale quick.

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lloydpick6y ago

Disney 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-dis...

hlfshellOP6y ago

Nice! 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.

NSAID6y ago

The 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.

vmurthy6y ago

Great 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-s...

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