Null's Light Project

What you want has been around for about a century now basicaly, its a mute button like they have on radio, the button when pressed does light up because of how bad it would be to not know when its hot or cold. it should be extremely easy to set up.

you might be complicating it up with the different light systems for different states but its still extremely easy for anyone with electrical experience. if you took it in high school it should be a breeze, if not i'm sure you can find some textbook with some near step-by-step instructions for something similar to what you want.
 
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amateur professional lurk said:
yeah but you lose the fun of a diy project you design and build yourself.


it does seem to me that in these types of discussion it seems common for autist to forget this aspect and just dick wave about which ready made product op could buy instead. (not saying this is specifically what you are doing, just more an observation in general)
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It's still pretty DIY, just makes it easier to focus on writing code without having to mess around with prototyping the hardware on a breadboard, then soldering your own board, etc.

Arduinos and breadboards are great for prototyping but for a finished project you'll want something more robust than a breadboard with a mess of jumper wires sitting in the open on your desk.
 
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Badungus Kabungus said:
It's still pretty DIY, just makes it easier to focus on writing code without having to mess around with prototyping the hardware on a breadboard, then soldering your own board, etc.

Arduinos and breadboards are great for prototyping but for a finished project you'll want something more robust than a breadboard with a mess of jumper wires sitting in the open on your desk.
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i agree that for finished project you want something better than breadboard. but for me, i cant speak for null, i like building on breadboards and prototyping hardware. i guess it is because i work as a programmer that im more interested in the aspects of physically building and prototyping hardware than i am at hammering out yet more code. i get enough of that during the weekdays.
 
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amateur professional lurk said:
i agree that for finished project you want something better than breadboard. but for me, i cant speak for null, i like building on breadboards and prototyping hardware. i guess it is because i work as a programmer that im more interested in the aspects of physically building and prototyping hardware than i am at hammering out yet more code. i get enough of that during the weekdays.
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The prototyping part can be a lot of fun, but the task of wiring up RGB LEDs on a breadboard sucks as you need 4 pins for each LED, resulting in a pretty bad tangle of wires if you want multiple addressable LEDs.

At the end that device is just an ATTiny85 with a serial-USB converter and a bunch of NeoPixels, all in one convenient package. Also less of a chance to release the magic smoke that way.
 
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Kind of an overkill to buy all of that for what you actually want lol

The easiest way I could think to make this is to grab an old USB cable, add one switch, a resitance and a LED, then add an audio extension to another switch, link both switches so when the thing is off, the LED and the audio extension are cut off from their proper cables and when you turn the switch on, the LED (powered by the USB cable mind you) and the audio will be connected and working.

But that's just me. It makes sense if you start learning how the arduino, or raspberry pi thingies work so you can do more interesting things later on so have fun with this one. I do recommend you read the tutorials first and don't go head first into bigger projects that might need 3D printed things that you'll use once and then dispose, such a waste.
 
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Wooow! People are using Rust for Arduino project these days? Is already usable? Back n my day, when I used to be into this kind of stuff, the go-to for Arduino was Processing, which was.... very ok, tbh.
 
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How would you use WebSockets? Arduino's communicate over COM ports. Are you going to have a local HTTP server that just forwards requests to the Arduino?
 
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Gay_Frog said:
What's the difference between official and the knockoffs?
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Depends on the knockoff, they range anywhere from "genuine unit taken off the assembly line just before branding" to "cobbled together from near-enough equivalent daily wholesale parts (read: defects and floor sweepings) for fractions of a penny".

Mostly assume you're paying extra for the assurance that at least if something is out of spec or doesn't work like it's supposed to, you'll have a pajeet to complain to instead of a bot with canned responses.
 
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Boss Nigger said:
Sounds like a really fun project, but what happens when your brain filters out the LED? I think you should add a speaker that goes "Youre muted, Youre muted, Youre muted, Youre muted, Youre muted, " every time you mute your mic
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You make it alternate steady with blinking at random intervals on a cycle. Your brain will notice the change. Solid 4-5 seconds, fast blink, solid 3 seconds, slow bink.

Edit: Or use RGB LEDS. I really like the rings.

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What's the difference between official and the knockoffs?
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The officials come with no cold solder joints and the Arduino bootloader properly flashed. I wouldn't recommend buying knock off Chinese crap for someone's very first micro project. @Null made a good choice. Arduino is the most well documented hobbyist platform in existence, and if he works through all the examples/demos, he'll be able to do a hell of a lot more than blink an LED by the time he's done. AVR is still really good for beginners due to the abuse they can withstand. Everything you learn on an Arduino transfers to the newer 32 bit stuff.
 
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byuu said:
Including worldwide shipping?
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Yeah. Including worldwide shipping. You can get one on aliexpress.

However, it is board with dual core 133 Mhz cpu and 264 sram so it is more like beefed up Arduino than fully functional computer. It can run micropython though.
 
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For those asking, I refuse to use anything from Raspberry Pi because during Gamergate they made several directed comments about how people from 8chan are not allowed to buy their products.
 
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It's a fun project but you seem to be responsive to chat yelling at you "YOU'RE ON MUTE" but it's cool to also have that represented by a thingamajig.
 
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You going to open source the firmware and the application ingesting the OBS WebSocket traffic? It'd be interesting to see how you approach the serial protocol stuff.
 
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Just install some police lights and alarms have it set to go off whenever your mic detects volume but is muted.
 
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