[HN Gopher] The Danglepoise
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The Danglepoise
Author : draazon
Score : 41 points
Date : 2025-04-23 15:52 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sallery.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sallery.co.uk)
| draazon wrote:
| Overcomplicated lighting design
| OJFord wrote:
| You might want to make it clearer you are OP and describing
| your work, I think some people might be reading this as
| dismissive criticism.
|
| (Also, I don't think you can do it by edit, but next time note
| that you can submit both a URL _and_ some accompanying text.)
| draazon wrote:
| Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the
| "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-
| criticism!
| OJFord wrote:
| Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German!
| Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments
| like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I
| almost voted down myself too, just then thought I
| recognised your username and double-checked.
|
| One other thought actually - if you can still edit the
| title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The
| Danglepoise', since then people will know the author is
| around for discussion. Just anecdotally I would guess Show
| HNs tend to have more engagement/votes on average.
|
| Anyway, nice project :)
| draazon wrote:
| I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't
| be eligible for Show HN?
| OJFord wrote:
| True, didn't really realise that actually, just read the
| rules. I'm sure I've seen similar as Show HNs.. but I
| guess maybe they had a GitHub project or whatever that
| tilts the scale.
| ziddoap wrote:
| > _I think some people might be reading this as dismissive
| criticism._
|
| This is exactly what I thought. I downvoted (now removed)
| thinking that it was a random passerby being dismissive.
| alabastervlog wrote:
| I was surprised at how short the table was, after the note up top
| about why they needed five lights because the table's so long. It
| looks way too big for the table, its proportions look like it
| belongs over a table 1.5-2 meters longer.
| draazon wrote:
| That's probably down to the angle; the table is in fact over 3
| metres long, and extendable.
| alabastervlog wrote:
| Ah, OK, that makes more sense then.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| I have a 9' dining table as well, and it can definitely be
| deceptive-- mine would absolutely benefit from a "full
| length" lighting solution like this.
| mulaG40 wrote:
| Love the ambience they create, nice work!
| AlfredBarnes wrote:
| I was just about to make a retractable light setup for my
| workshop. I hadn't thought of automating/motorizing it.
|
| A simple pull reel was my goto, but that doesn't work in this
| application. Amazing work very smart and looks like a fun
| project.
| chb wrote:
| Where did you find these fixtures, OP? I see something similar
| offered by Feit, but not quite as elegant.
| draazon wrote:
| The lamp-holders and braided flex are from
| https://www.lampspares.co.uk/, and the bulbs themselves are
| from Heal's (https://www.heals.com/lighting/bulbs-and-
| fittings.html).
| blutack wrote:
| It's obviously way too late now but esphome is a very nice easy
| mode solution for the whole remote upload/logging/server/mqtt/iot
| widget thing if you don't want to drag in esp-idf. First time
| bootstrap is via serial/webusb and then it's all OTA.
|
| You can write custom c++ modules for bits they don't have
| already, although that's pretty rare. Often used with HA but it
| works fine standalone with MQTT too, and deployment doesn't have
| to be from a server.
|
| https://esphome.io/
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