Thursday, December 28, 2017

Baby piano hack

Bought a toy piano "Kick and Play" and rewired its buttons to trigger a midi engine running on a raspberry pi.


Code: https://github.com/spiffomatic64/rpi_hacked_baby_instrument

Friday, December 1, 2017

First baby project (nightlight)

Simple motion activated nightlight we still use today.

The purpose of this was to give us a gentle warm light that fades up/down based on motion, so that when we had to do night feedings/diaper changes, it wouldn't be a harsh bright light, and it could "fade up/down" gently.

Code here: https://github.com/spiffomatic64/simple_baby_projects/blob/master/nightlight.ino

Using neopixels, arduino, and motion sensor.

Hacking a 3ds to add parental controls

  The 3ds is an amazing piece of hardware. Especially if you hack it to add homebrew/emulators. My son has been enjoying a bit of "free...