Hacking Hardware for Hugs and Profit!
summary
Conference badge starts as a hacked ESP8266/ESP32 with IR and VL6180X time‑of‑flight sensors to detect embraces, tuning the detection window to about 700–1000 ms so quick hugs register. Electronics run on LiPo power and LEDs give immediate feedback; backend uses MQTT feeding an ECS cluster with three containers (heartbeat, hugbot, transport) and lets the creator deploy quality checks to avoid Twitter shadowbans. Source and build notes are on GitHub under techman83/Been Hugged.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:09Hardware hacking for profit
- 3:50First hug badge prototype
- 6:00ESP32 upgrade Sydney LCA 2018
- 8:09AWS integration LCA 2019
- 10:49LCA 2020 badge chaos
- 13:25Whimsical to practical IoT
- 16:21Tools and open source
- 17:48Summary and future plans
- 18:33Q&A
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