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It’s an escape room in a box. A co-op puzzle game I made to infuriate my friends. The video above details the game play and brief technical details about my Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes clone. You’ll want to watch that now. For the detailed technical write up, check out the project page at https://heathbar.github.io/keep-talking…

I recently built a chandelier for a friend. There aren’t any “smarts” on this project, but technically it’s an LED light. The beam is made from three 2x6s that I purchased at a local reclaimed-wood shop. I bound them together by wrapping them in a flat piece of steel that is bolted at the top…

I have had a node app that watches for changes to my Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins and sends an MQTT message as part of my home automation setup. Recently I re-imaged my pi and much to my dismay really struggled to install the requisite libraries.   Instead of banging my head against that wall any…

I recently needed to migrate a relatively large repository from SVN to GIT. For simple applications, this migration is done easily with git svn clone https://… However, due to the large repo size, or a shady network, or the fact that I was running on windows, the clone failed repeatedly. The work around is to…

I created an npm module to interact with plum lightpad switches. NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/plum-lightpad GitHub: https://github.com/heathbar/plum-lightpad-js Vendor: https://plumlife.com/…

I’m working on building a submerged HTPC. For the tank I settled on the Mini-bow 2.5 gallon tank. However, totally teal was not my prefered color. I quickly upgraded to black trimming. I also mounted a small green LED in the center of the top cover. I’ll likely use this as the HDD indicator LED.The…