Because what good is doing something if you’re not pushing the envelope?
Controlling the NUC Hades Canyon Skull LED from Ubuntu
I initially found a set of libraries and got excited about it, but they didn’t work — then I came upon this write-up, which indicated that a rewrite was needed for the Hades Canyon — and lo, there it was. With some handy code to help understand the awkward method of setting skull and eye colors and making things blinky.
To come: let’s use those eyes to trigger visual feedback for events… Or maybe blink morse code clues during a challenge, see if anyone notices…
Speaking of triggering…
You know, VMs can be precarious, and the last thing you want to do is shut down a machine that’s running a bunch of VMs. So maybe let’s take advantage of some of this amazing computing power, and, for example, use udev to trigger a startup of all VMs (in order, of course) when a particular usb key is installed; also to trigger a shutdown of the same VMs (and perhaps the entire machine!) when the key is pulled… complete with windows on the screen confirming what’s going on.
Or maybe adapting a bluetooth camera remote to do the same thing. Anything to not have to physically log in to initiate a shutdown script, right?