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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | 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.
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bschwindHN ◴[28 Apr 23 06:01 UTC] No.35737970[source]▶
Awhile ago I made an remote infrared sending tool so a raspberry pi can control my A/C unit

https://blog.bschwind.com/2016/05/29/sending-infrared-comman...

Since then I made a much slimmer, cheaper, more efficient version based on the ESP32 but I haven't written up much about that.

I also created my own keyboard with firmware in Rust

https://github.com/bschwind/key-ripper

I've done a bunch of other small one-off projects too.

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1. wingtw ◴[05 May 23 04:54 UTC] No.35825348[source]▶
Please do, if possible, a writeup on ESP32 version too - i have exactly the same need for one AC unit (daikin) and PI seems an overkill - but i have some esp32-cam's lying around...