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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.259s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. sowbug ◴[] No.35738295[source]
An automatic fish feeder. I was going on a long trip with my family and needed to feed my fish while we were gone. I remembered I had a servo from an old project. I drilled some holes in a round plastic container, glued it to the servo shaft, hung it off the tank with some wire, and wrote a small Arduino sketch to jiggle the container every 24 hours. It worked better than I thought it would; the fish survived, and in fact seemed so happy that I don't feed them by hand anymore.

I've since built a couple more for my other tanks, and I rewrote the firmware for ESP8266/ESPHome. Now my family can ask Alexa to feed the fish, because of course the world needs that.