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I made a safe-to-wake light for my son out of a Raspberry Pi. It serves up a responsive website on the local network so you can manually change the lights or update the schedule.

Been running like a champ for over 3 years now, which has been the most pleasant surprise. I'm used to ecosystem entropy causing things to break.

I documented my adventures in a 6-part series: https://ajpierce.com/2020-01-04_safe-to-wake-pt1/




Human behaviour is fascinating. Never heard of this happening before.




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