Message from @shadowedROM
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Gonna gift it to a friend on Saturday. I'm sure he won't even think about whether its fake or not
me too. friends coming to visit, its their easy christmas present
early*
other friend is getting the xiaomi band
anyone here with exp doing IoT projects with ESP8266 nodemcu type devices from ali
i'm trying to decide if I should buy 20 of them; any issues with these getting exploited from outside, are they hard to work with in any weird way
I understood projects
sorry lol
they're nifty little $3 wifi-connected Arduino things
Oh, sounds interesting
the meme project is making your own amazon dash button basically
I used to play around with arduino and stuff I bought off aliexpress
Almost made a self driving Rc car
cool
radar?
Loads of ultrasonic receptors, ir luminosity detector and a specially made cardboard black and while road
It could detect any obstacle, drive around obstacles, follow a curvy road, self park between two vehicles or obstacles
Basically every single "function" worked. But somehow putting everything together was impossible
yeah the complexity management for building a system like that explodes quickly
it's easy to make something with linear inputs
more than one condition is ehhh
paralel processing is where it gets fun
i loved that shit in Automation engineering
right, it becomes a design project for school
not really a hobby thing
well it could but
it would... tromp my other hobbies
That car was my 'computer science' project in senior year of high school
That was a few years ago
I'm actually pretty proud of what I did back then :>
novadays kids do that shit with machine viewing and object regonition
ya should be
makes me feel oldschool relying to simple sensors
^
well it all boils down to sensors; it's how you deal with that data / what structures and analysis you do on it after that makes it fancy
it's not horribly hard just a paradigm shift
not like, a C-microcontroller project
i have some plans start playing again with multiwave Lidar setups but i wonder if it will ever happen
How affordable are lidars for home projects like these? Is buying these things actually possible
cheap