Smart toilet paper roll for the inagural "YEG Stupid Shit Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon" held on August 20, 2016.
The tech stack for this hackathon project was definitely a representative sample of hackathon-quality code :)
- 3 magnets on a paint-roller that holds the TP
- 1 reed switch that is activated when the pait roller rotates 1/3 of a revolution
- 1 Raspberry PI with a python program on it that polls the reed switch, and posts a timestamp to a FireBase server
- A web front-end with graphs that is pushed data from FireBase
- An Android Wear app that notifies you of Toilet Paper Roll activity.... as you're using the TP roll.
https://twitter.com/stupidhackyeg/status/767146228358479872/photo/1
https://twitter.com/stupidhackyeg/status/767024620134281217?s=03
Nathan and I won 3rd place.