<story><title>A Light Box in Heavy Times</title><url>https://blog.afandian.com/2020/02/light-box-heavy-times/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>What a perfectly delightful post in all respects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I am starting to think of interesting software for the Light Box that does respond exclusively to human input.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I think of responsive software that gives me with delight without wresting any control from me, I think of programs that &lt;i&gt;magnify&lt;/i&gt; my input in some way.&lt;p&gt;One simple idea that would well for this is a kaleidoscope. Press a button and not only does it change, but so do corresponding mirrored or rotated buttons around the box from it. A hex grid is great for this because then you can do 3-fold or 6-fold symmetry around the center button in addition to simple reflection symmetry.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Light Box in Heavy Times</title><url>https://blog.afandian.com/2020/02/light-box-heavy-times/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strags</author><text>That is awesome! The retro box is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;I discovered that my son (17 months old at the time) loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixel rings - build a wooden enclosure with a plastic faceplate, and wrote some code to generate fancy light and audio effects when he turns&amp;#x2F;clicks the knobs. He loved it. We call it the &amp;quot;Max Distractor&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xtE8oE9GOsM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xtE8oE9GOsM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inside it&amp;#x27;s just a RPi. One of these days I really need to make it do something more fancy.</text></comment>