This is completely and utterly useless and something I have absolutely no interest in or need for in my life.
I love it. The video is even better than the blog post IMO.
Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
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Re: Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
#12We have this same train set. The app that goes with it is pretty cool; you can set up a track in real life and then make the same track in the app, and it will follow along, with little mini games at certain spots, etc. The app train and the real life train stay in sync.
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#13I highly recommend the accompanying youtube demo video [1] - but only if you enjoy a hacker dad singing fausetto to propel his son's toy train faster around the track. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65X-cs55qM
Almost sounds like the Sprach Zarathustra. Almost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o
Re: Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
#14Great job! Now apply it to a roller coaster
Re: Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
#15was anyone else hoping when he said Windows wouldn't cut it he was going to start talking about Linux? Just kidding of course (kind of). Sounds like a fun project.
Sadly Bluetooth support on Node is a mess and has been so forever. Noble is the only BLE library, and the original creator abandoned it years ago. The community forked it and has been maintaining it since then, but it's still got a lot of the baggage from the original, particularly that it's near unusable on Windows. I've considered rewriting one of my projects in another language just to get away from Noble.
Re: Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
#16We have this same train set. The app that goes with it is pretty cool; you can set up a track in real life and then make the same track in the app, and it will follow along, with little mini games at certain spots, etc. The app train and the real life train stay in sync.
Cool. What is the feedback mechanism to keep them in sync?
Re: Show HN: I hacked my son’s Duplo train to go faster using my voice
#17So coupling it with Google Voice / Alexa would be also possible and trigger the start
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#19> hacked
> using open source library that has all required apis
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#20> hacked > using open source library that has all required apis
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