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24 alternatives to I connected my house lights to video games
Stavros' Stuff documents a hardware hacking project that connects RGB LED light strips to video games. The creator purchased inexpensive LED strips from eBay and reverse-engineered them to build an API, enabling the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I connected my house lights to video games launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main…
2024 · usoldering.com · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · anfractuosity.com · its alternatives →
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Blinks▲169An open-source board game system with a mind of its own
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Weekend Project: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
2013 · gnewt.at · its alternatives →
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Create dazzling lighting effects & control via APP on phone.
2021 · auselectronicsdirect.com.au · its alternatives →
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Control your RGB lights using this simple and powerful app.
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A framework and server for controlling analog LED strips with an Arduino and a NEXT LED Strip Driver Module - kienankb/LuxBase
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I love getting cool swag from hackathons and I also love designing PCB's, so when my friend asked me if I would design hackathon badges for a large game jam in singapore, I was absolutely down! The theme of overglade was a "The game jam within a game", pretty cool concept right! High schoolers from around the world were flown out to the event by hackclub after they spent about 70 hours designing their own game. These badges needed to be really cheap and simple, because we were going to manufacture about a hundred in a pretty limited amount of time. I went with a zero-power approach, which…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Experiments with tech and their record on the internet
2018 · ashishdubey.xyz · its alternatives →
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A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Affordable Connected Smart Home Light Strips for Home Makers
2017 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Game for designers: guess the right RGB color
2015 · rgbchallenge.com · its alternatives →
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📡 Stream Raspberry Pi games to a GBA via Link Cable. - afska/gba-remote-play
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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