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I'd like to hear more about the bulbs used. Cheap wifi bulbs with a simple protocol sound like fun.
prob the Phillips bulbs. Sadly they don't sit flush in most sockets, despite using the same fixture name.
>My WiFi bulbs are some unknown, eBay sourced devices that use a crappy mobile app for control.
I'd like to hear more about the bulbs used. Cheap wifi bulbs with a simple protocol sound like fun.
I must have these, and a link to their alibaba page.
Now if this whole thing could be accomplished using pure redstone circuitry http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109385-Computer-Bu...
Redstone has no means of communication to the outside, so even if you created an entire computer with redstone(very unlikely) you would have no means of communication outside of minecraft.
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I must have these, and a link to their alibaba page.
For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.
That said, I'm not entirely sure the risk is that much greater with off-brand Chinese products than "American" (designed, programmed and made in China) ones.
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Redstone has no means of communication to the outside, so even if you created an entire computer with redstone(very unlikely) you would have no means of communication outside of minecraft.
That would be a neat experiment to see if the conjecture, "Redstone has no means of communication to the outside" is true. It would be interesting to find bugs within the redstone rendering engine that leak or emit data. I'm thinking of something similar to the Super Mario World bank switching pong game.
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I must have these, and a link to their alibaba page.
For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I must have these, and a link to their alibaba page.
For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.
Well, if they do catch fire, at least they still provide illumination even when they fail!
I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm wondering if others feel the same way. Does it make me less of a "hacker"? I enjoy programming, sometimes I wonder how things work, but oftentimes I don't mind that it is abstracted from me and "just works", and I rarely if ever have the urge to integrate two seemingly unrelated things to create a unique hack.