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Show HN: How to Annoy Your Coworkers for $42 Using ClojureScript and Rust

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Cool project, I think this might be a possible replacement for IFTTT for example depending on the ease of building plugins, but would be good to have that kind of automation under your own control.

Actually, wit.ai would do very well to partner with IFTTT or Zapier to make a recipe or whatever they call their plugins.

It'd be a good match.

Wit.ai team here. We've been thinking about it actually, and webhooks as well. Stay tuned!

I use a local install of Node-RED [0] instead of IFTTT, I find it really good for ad-hoc wiring together of stimuli / physical responses (eg I have some LIFX bulbs).

[0] http://nodered.org/

I don't understand why Node-RED hasn't blown up on HN yet. Its ridiculous how powerful it is for connecting hardware, web APIs, websockets, HTTP Servers, twitter, push notifications, shell scripts, you name it. Additionally, it runs on PC, Mac, Beaglebone Black, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino.

For instance, I'm working on a flow that passes a hardcoded Google Maps url to page2image.com, gets back a screen shot, runs a python script to analyze the image for the traffic level, and makes a determination based upon a predefined threshold. If there is high traffic, a pushbullet notification is sent to my phone. If there is low traffic, a text message is sent to my phone. I have each notification set to a different sound. On my Android, I'm using Tasker to sense when I enter a gps radius, and then send a message through no-ip to my beaglebone running Node-RED to kick off the whole process.

The end result should be that during my morning commute, when I'm approaching a particularly congested area, I'll get one of two sounds on my phone. One sound indicates that I should take the main road, and the other sound indicates that I should take side roads.

This is awesome.

This guy in the video is so French! Cool little hack tho, I like those kind of Raspberry hacks!

rust is a pretty cool development for embedded systems design where robustness and integrity is essential

Okay, time to buckle down and make this for my home :P.

Is this video going to be removed for copyrighted materials? Just curious.

Pretty sure this would fall under fair use.

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