I always wanted to build a game from scratch using an Arduino and combine this with my woodworking skills. When Agata was 1 year old, I used this as a pretext (so she can play) and built a wooden box where I could mount 4 buttons, added an LCD and there you go, the foundations for any game with 4 coloured buttons and a display.
My project was a reaction game.
I’m mostly working with PHP and for this I’m using PhpStorm - best IDE for php development, at least when using a framework like Laravel.
When inspecting code, if you’re like me and see something fishy, first thing I do is to check annotations (right click on the line numbers and click “Annotate”), so I can see how worked on that part of the code - this is also a shortcut to see git history, since if you click on the annotation, it will show you the git history.
I had a couple of ESP32 laying around and I’ve been waiting for an excuse to put them to work. I’m working from home and one of the issues I had was to let my wife and child know that I’m in a conference, so I don’t want to be disturbed.
I found out about ESP-NOW, the protocol developed by Espressif, and I immediately thought about making a notification system that will show a red light when I press a button.