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Show HN: Imposter Attack - Among Us-themed infrared game made with
ESP32
Author : statico
Score : 131 points
Date : 2024-12-13 17:00 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| statico wrote:
| This took a few evenings to make :)
|
| Full source code is on GitHub:
| https://github.com/statico/imposter-attack-2024
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Looks fun, and certainly worth a star. =3
| ryanisnan wrote:
| This is awesome! I may try to get this working locally with my
| 6 year old son!
| statico wrote:
| Shoot me a message if you need any help!
| cookie_monsta wrote:
| Haha. I see what you did there
| t_mann wrote:
| > I was told that I had the second biggest crowd, second only to
| a Pokemon bean bag game (which did look pretty cool). Some adults
| were curious, but most importantly, a handful of questions from
| kids who wanted to know how I built it. It was especially
| rewarding to show one off one of the extra targets I brought. One
| kid even recognized the ESP32 chips and said, "Oh, these are the
| ones you can make drones out of!"
|
| That paragraph really stood out to me. Apparently, where OP
| lives, people casually make stuff even cooler than a _laser
| shooting game_ for a one-off school event, and elementary-school-
| age kids recognize specific types of microcontrollers.
| statico wrote:
| Part of me wants to say, "Well, that's Silicon Valley for you,"
| but I'm confident there are many other places you could say
| something similar about.
|
| Compared to what my neighbors are working on and with self-
| driving cars roaming around, infrared shooting games seem
| pretty mild :)
| bragr wrote:
| 1 out of 115 kids recognizing a microcontroller doesn't seem
| that surprising considering many kids play with little
| electronics kits these days.
| duxup wrote:
| This might be one of the coolest maker projects I've seen.
| Congratulations!
| statico wrote:
| Thanks!
| starkparker wrote:
| > I might try a different theme than Among Us
|
| This might've been thrown out for being too obvious, but did you
| consider Ghostbusters? Swap the magic wand for a proton pack wand
| and it seems to fit almost too well.
| statico wrote:
| Wow, I never considered a Ghostbusters theme. I'll keep that in
| mind for next year.
| monocularvision wrote:
| So cool and a great write up. Thanks for sharing!
| dang wrote:
| We put Show HN in the title (the convention for sharing your own
| work on HN, which this certainly is! -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). But putting that in
| pushed MicroPython out the end of the buffer (which is fixed to
| 80 chars).
|
| If MicroPython is more interesting than ESP32, we can swap
| them...
|
| (Submitted title was "Imposter Attack - Among Us-themed infrared
| game made with ESP32 and MicroPython")
| statico wrote:
| Thanks, dang. It's been a while and I forgot the rules.
| jackschultz wrote:
| Great timing. I've been wanting to learn how to do projects like
| this, but been so unsure what types of microcontroller I should
| get and what else could be needed. Similar in the software world
| where we all have our preferred tech stacks, I was so uncertain
| of what stack to use for these projects that it definitely causes
| a hurdle.
|
| His mention of the ESP32 and how
|
| >While working on the game I used my newfound ESP32 skills to do
| some other projects, such as automating the remote-controlled
| blinds in our bedroom as well as a motion sensor that would send
| Pushover notifications to my phone.
|
| is absolutely what I'm wanting to be able to do. Learn the tech
| needed for one controller that can be used on tons of different
| places. That, plus that talk with MicroPython (and other parts)
| gives some confidence about learning this hardware stack.
| statico wrote:
| I'd say you're on the right track, then! It's kind of like
| software -- figure out how the components talk to each other
| and figure out where to hook in. Instead of APIs, you've got
| multimeters and oscilloscopes.
|
| In the case of the blind automation, the remote uses some kind
| of proprietary wireless signal. Instead of figuring that out, I
| soldered some leads into the remote's momentary button
| terminals, which I connected to transistors on a breadboard.
| The ESP32 simply pretends to press a button and complete a
| connection on the remote.
|
| Also check out ESPHome (https://esphome.io), a firmware for
| ESP32 that lets you more easily integrate with home automation
| systems.
| boomskats wrote:
| Hard pass on Among Us. I heard it makes kids murder CEOs when
| they grow up[0].
|
| [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-
| unitedhe...
| nancyminusone wrote:
| Monopoly is the only game anyone should ever need.
| connicpu wrote:
| I'm not sure if you're serious, but that guy was already 20
| when the game came out.
| boomskats wrote:
| I'm definitely not serious, it's a ridiculous take. The
| response to it on bluesky[0] is an entertaining read though.
|
| [0]: https://bsky.app/profile/amongus.innersloth.com/post/3lc
| xvjk...
| salynchnew wrote:
| Very, very cool-looking project!
|
| It would be very cool to somehow make a laser tag variant, and
| build a persistent game and multiple players, StreetWars style.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20151026121204/http://www.sfgate...
| nabilt wrote:
| Super impressive project, especially for what seems to be your
| first embedded project. I haven't played with microPython/uOTA so
| this was an interesting read.
|
| Since you mentioned the water meter Flume, I wanted to
| shamelessly plug my open source water meter that I'm currently
| developing. It also uses the ESP32 so I thought you might be
| interested.
|
| Main page. https://y-drip.com/
|
| Docs: https://y-drip.com/docs/site/v0.4/
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