On its own it could make for a decent movement alarm, but the part that makes the project interesting is how it’s applied to become a device to help with procrastination instead.įirst, you put your phone in a jar along with the electronics and close it. It checks for a signal from the sensor, and if it’s triggered, it sends a command through the Adafruit IO libraries to IFTTT. On the hardware side there are no surprises, it consists of a PIR sensor connected to a NodeMCU microcontroller. In this case we were presented with ’s easy-to-follow instructable on how to build an anti-procrastination device. While there are loads of impressive and complex projects here on Hackaday, sometimes it’s the simple ones that really speak to us. In any case, their project could serve as a good intro to integrating your Particle with IFTTT or Alexa since there appears to be quite a bit of probably unnecessary handshaking going on here.Ĭontinue reading “An Overly Complicated Method Of Tracking Your Favorite Sports Team” → Posted in internet hacks, Misc Hacks Tagged alexa, echo, IFTTT, IoT, particle But hey, we’re all about learning by doing here at Hackaday and we’re all guilty of building useless projects here and there just because we can. This project might not fulfill any functional need given that Alexa knows everything about all our lives already and you could just ask her how your favorite team is doing whenever you want to. Regardless, they seemed to be happy with the result and I’m sure they learned something in the process. This seems a bit roundabout since the system started with IFTTT in the first place. One of the more confusing aspects of their design is one of the Particle boards then signals back to IFTTT, telling it to tally the number of wins and losses. Another Particle board displays the results on an LCD screen. One Particle responds by lighting up an LED, green for a win and red for a loss. Alexa then sends that information to IFTTT where two different Particle Argon boards are constantly polling the results to decide how to respond next. First, they tell Alexa whether or not the team won or lost that week. Their system is a bit convoluted, so bear with us. So how do people keep up with their favorite team? Well, and decided to devise a custom IoT solution. Much of the world appears to revolve around sports, and sports tracking is a pretty big business.
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