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sephalon

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    Comment #44087556

    The driver supports alternate keycode mappings specifically for that reason, but before reading your comment I was unaware of the motivation behind reversing the pulse order. Thank…

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    Comment #44083157

    Nice one! Using an ESP32 is a much more economical choice these days, but well, I really wanted to write a Linux kernel driver ;-)

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    Comment #44082922

    Unfortunately only a handful of subystem APIs have Rust bindings right now, so I did not get far enough to write up anything meaningful. Maybe next year support has matured to make…

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    Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver

    A Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into an evdev input device. You might be interested in this driver if you - prefer the slow pace of dialing over typing numbers…

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    Comment #43831817

    Yes, noise is a problem, which unfortunately makes the lamp quite unpopular with my girlfriend ;-) Some is indeed coming from the folding mechanism itself, but the majority of nois…

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    Comment #43822129

    The firmware is based on ESPHome, which integrates particularly well into Home Assistant, a popular home automation software; therefore I would recommend to implement such features…

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    Comment #43813491

    Part of the reason for automating it was that I wanted to integrate the lamp into my home theater setup: When the movie starts, the lamp slowly closes and synchronously dims out (g…

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    Comment #43811181

    I have converted the timelapse to H.264/AAC, hope this plays everywhere now.

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    Comment #43810333

    Thanks for letting me know about the video playback issue, I used the following script to create the timelapse: ffmpeg \ -pattern_type glob \ -framerate 30 \ -i "img/*.JPG" \ -i "s…

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    Show HN: Remote-Controlled IKEA Deathstar Lamp

    Repainting the iconic IKEA PS 2014 lamp into the Deathstar from Star Wars has been a popular IKEA hack for quite some time. This variant additionally replaces the manual, rope-oper…

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    Comment #43644504

    A German film crew shot a documentary onboard a Typhoon class submarine (the TK-20 Severstal) in 2001, showing many aspects of daily life onboard, including the launch of a RSM-52 …

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    Comment #43626285

    I wish more of these government-baked payment systems would just use GNU Taler [1] instead of implementing their own walled gardens. GNU Taler ensures that the paying customer is a…

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    Comment #43066157

    I have to admit, I’d be curious to visit one of these restaurants myself. However, one has to be aware of the fact that these restaurants are reportedly linked to the secretive Nor…

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