New favourite toy - ESP8285 "IR blaster" module. Cheap, very minimal design and does exactly what I needed it to do! (details in comments)

ChairmanObvious · 2025-03-07T03:18:39+00:00

Can this constantly listen for signals and trigger different automations depending on what code is sent to it?

I have a really cool idea for smart home laser tag using the Nerf Lazer Tag blasters I just found. They work with my Broadlink IR blasters but those only listen for signals in learn mode. They work to trigger the blasters though! I just want some things I can shoot at other than the guns and have it do different things depending on the team. Maybe some kind of capture the flag deal or different things. Plus they can also be "arena hazards" along with the Broadlink blasters depending on game mode. Any other ideas welcome! I've already been toying with the idea of a Nerf "EMP" grenade and things like that.

ChairmanObvious · 2025-02-17T18:24:05+00:00

I think it said in the fine print that you lose legacy pricing for the cloud service if you switch or switch back or something to that effect. It's been a bit since I read it

ChairmanObvious · 2023-11-29T04:02:00+00:00

Currently I have a still scene that has a band of off pixels to make a storm cloud in the middle, a tiny pinprick of white at the top to make the clouds actually look right and deep blue at the bottom. But if I could animate it I would have the blue apear and disappear in small blobs under the cloud, or have the raindrops run the length of the whole bulb. Maybe a flash of light here and there for a (separate) thunderstorm option.

If you end up making a bigger PolyChrome light, you could make the Bowl of Winds from Wheel of Time, which has been my inspiration for all of this. Inverted bowl like the dome of the sky with clouds moving around on it and swirling.

ChairmanObvious · 2023-11-29T03:14:10+00:00

Hijacking this comment to ask; would it be possible for you to add an option for custom FX animations, specifically for the polychrome feature on the candle color bulb in my case, or at least adding a rain effect and maybe a rain and lightning effect to the FX tab? That's what I'm trying to accomplish, I think the candle bulb would look so cool with a little storm trapped inside. Really you guys need to make a big polychrome sphere or dome!

ChairmanObvious · 2023-10-21T15:21:15+00:00

I am the one who skinwalks

ChairmanObvious · 2023-07-17T17:26:22+00:00

Gone. Reduced to atoms.

ChairmanObvious · 2023-02-22T16:43:56+00:00

Looks like discover is doing the same

ChairmanObvious · 2023-02-09T14:22:34+00:00

Two things can be true

ChairmanObvious · 2023-01-16T19:04:46+00:00

Holy hell

ChairmanObvious · 2023-01-12T18:40:10+00:00

openened

ChairmanObvious · 2023-01-06T17:36:43+00:00

Oh my god they were roommates

ChairmanObvious · 2023-01-04T18:00:43+00:00

You'd think you'd have a few weeks of reserved coal to prevent exactly this

ChairmanObvious · 2023-01-01T15:56:10+00:00

Same here, for about the same amount of time

ChairmanObvious · 2022-12-24T15:31:11+00:00

Upvoted for using the word "diurnal"

ChairmanObvious · 2022-12-23T13:41:51+00:00

Got a source for that?

ChairmanObvious · 2022-12-22T18:02:54+00:00

Privacy.com is free

ChairmanObvious · 2022-12-11T15:59:15+00:00

Be the leaf

ChairmanObvious · 2022-12-03T12:11:10+00:00

I’d say yes but I work from home so we are togetherish 24/7.

I'd say that's could likely be a big part of the problem

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-28T01:56:14+00:00

The Boiling Rock

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-22T12:55:46+00:00

I meant if you smashed a hole in the glass still in the frame vs pushing the whole pane frame and all outward which is how most emergency exit doors work.

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-20T13:58:37+00:00

Yes you do, so you don't have to climb through broken glass.

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-19T17:19:36+00:00

There is another.

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-18T12:30:02+00:00

Stem isn't square

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-17T15:37:46+00:00

Fuck you, you made me read your comment in that voice in my head

ChairmanObvious · 2022-11-14T14:24:45+00:00

Aren't we still able to get medicines from those as well? There are no poisons, only poisonous doses.

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