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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.285s | 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. IgorPartola ◴[] No.35740265[source]
I didn’t exactly build this from scratch but it is pretty heavily modified: I use an ESP8266 with a relay module to control my garage door via Home Assistant. I use a second one mounted on my bike as a WiFi presence detector. This way when I turn the bike on, the bike module connects to my home WiFi and Home Assistant opens my garage door. Once I leave the property and WiFi disconnects, the garage door closes a minute later. When I come home the same happens: as I approach the garage door opens and after I park and shut the bike off the door closes. There are a lot of solutions for how to open the garage door from a bike but this has been the most elegant that I’ve tried.