I connected my house lights to video games
I connected my house lights to video games launched on July 20, 2016 with 127 votes, #285 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
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 lights to respond to gameplay. The project demonstrates practical electronics experimentation and software integration for hobbyists interested in home automation and hardware modification.
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From the sources
A while ago, two unrelated things happened: I got one of those cheap RGB LED strips from Ebay, and I became interested in hardware hacking. If you aren’t familiar with the LED strips, they’re basically a long string of LEDs connected to a controller that usually supports an infrared remote control, which can be used to set the color and intensity of the lights. When I started tinkering with hardware, I noticed a change: I started looking at common, everyday things around the house and thinking “I bet I could put a controller in that and write an API for it”. This led to a button that orders food when pressed , a rotary mobile phone , a wifi-enabled room fragrance…from stavros.io
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