It’s become something of a tradition at this point that each year I continue to build upon the interactive Christmas lights which I started in 2020.
Previous iterations:
Now that my kid is walking, the baby bouncer control I added last year is redundant, but is given me the idea of continuing to build upon the lights following his progress stages.
So this year I purchased a Playstation dance mat.
The single board computer that I have been using is pretty much tapped out in terms of resources – trying to add a USB hub in order to connect the controller pulled too much power, so in order to do that would mean having another powered USB socket (currently there are 3, which all powered from a single wall socket, 3 port USB charger)
However the way that I have developed the control software is that it is ultimately a small web server on the local network.
Therefore I can connect the dance mat to a different machine then just have it control the lights over the network. It’s perhaps not the most optimal way of doing things, but is ultimately a temporary installation for a couple of weeks.
To connect the dance mat, I am using a Playstation to USB adapter (it’s a PS2 dance mat).
This shows up under lsusb, and using the details taken from there I can connect it using udev, following the same method that I used in order to connect the treadmill from a different project.
