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Making the Strofara
This is going to be pretty specific to a Greek audience, as it’s all based on a Greek meme video, but I’ll try to explain. Watch the video first so you know what I’m talking about while I describe it: Two guys are driving on a road near a remote village in Crete, and the guy on the passenger seat is excited about the prospect of speeding around the turn.
I realized that it would be fairly easy to detect turns, using an accelerometer, and I had a board that can play MP3 files off a MicroSD card, so I figured I’d cobble them all together and see if it worked. Obligatory AI rendition of what it feels like to drive with the Strofara in your car.I used an MPU-6050 accelerometer breakout board, it was really easy to connect it to an ESP8266, and with some sample code and existing libraries, I was quickly on my way to detecting turns. I thought the USB current wouldn’t be enough to drive any significant volume, but it’s loud enough to startle me the first time the audio played over the speaker.
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