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Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by nabilt »

Super impressive project, especially for what seems to be your first embedded project. I haven't played with microPython/uOTA so this was an interesting read.

Since you mentioned the water meter Flume, I wanted to shamelessly plug my open source water meter that I'm currently developing. It also uses the ESP32 so I thought you might be interested.

Main page. https://y-drip.com/

Docs: https://y-drip.com/docs/site/v0.4/

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by connicpu »

boomskats wrote: post #18

Hard pass on Among Us. I heard it makes kids murder CEOs when they grow up[0]. [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhe...

I'm not sure if you're serious, but that guy was already 20 when the game came out.

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by cookie_monsta »

statico wrote: post #14
ryanisnan wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome! I may try to get this working locally with my 6 year old son!

Shoot me a message if you need any help!

Haha. I see what you did there

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by boomskats »

connicpu wrote: post #22
boomskats wrote: post #18

Hard pass on Among Us. I heard it makes kids murder CEOs when they grow up[0]. [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhe...

I'm not sure if you're serious, but that guy was already 20 when the game came out.

I'm definitely not serious, it's a ridiculous take. The response to it on bluesky[0] is an entertaining read though.

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/amongus.innersloth.com/post/3lcxvjk...

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by outworlder »

nancyminusone wrote: post #19
boomskats wrote: post #18

Hard pass on Among Us. I heard it makes kids murder CEOs when they grow up[0]. [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhe...

Monopoly is the only game anyone should ever need.

And that only to learn why monopolies suck and that some regulations are actually useful. Also how real state can be unfair :)

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by bschwindHN »

statico wrote: post #2

This took a few evenings to make :) Full source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/statico/imposter-attack-2024

Nice work! I got into electronics with infrared remote decoding and ESP chips, so this was a bit nostalgic and fun to read :)

Making a PCB is the next step, and it's quite easy to get started with KiCAD, especially if you're just mounting header sockets to pop in the various boards you're using. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by mock-possum »

bragr wrote: post #13
t_mann wrote: post #3

> I was told that I had the second biggest crowd, second only to a Pokémon bean bag game (which did look pretty cool). Some adults were curious, but most importantly, a handful of questions from kids who wanted to know how I built it. It was especially rewarding to show one off one of the extra targets I brought. One kid even recognized the ESP32 chips and said, “Oh, these are the ones you can make drones out of!” Th…

1 out of 115 kids recognizing a microcontroller doesn't seem that surprising considering many kids play with little electronics kits these days.

Plus kids follow makers on social media and video sites.

Re: Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32

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Post by statico »

bschwindHN wrote: post #27
statico wrote: post #2

This took a few evenings to make :) Full source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/statico/imposter-attack-2024

Nice work! I got into electronics with infrared remote decoding and ESP chips, so this was a bit nostalgic and fun to read :) Making a PCB is the next step, and it's quite easy to get started with KiCAD, especially if you're just mounting header sockets to pop in the various boards you're using. Good luck!

Thanks! That's what I'm hoping. I'm already going down the YouTube hole of KiCAD...
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