I put a ThinkPad nipple in my wall to control my lights

[@CodingWithLewis]

The intrusive thoughts have definitely won but I am so glad it did. Awesome project

[@GuyDupont]

Ha thank you!!

[@stephen_hawes]

Yet another banger! Your build ideas are not only hilarious and involve skill and creativity to put together, but damn dude, your presentation is really great. You know exactly how you want to convey the narrative of what you built, and it shows. Every time I completely come along for the story, full stop. Love your work!

[@GuyDupont]

dang stephen, thanks! made my day. The feeling's mutual!!

[@danm3d]

this just came up in my feed and I don't think something has ever been so relevant to me in my life. thank you for this gift

[@JBroadway]

Keep going bro these videos are so freaking cool! 👏🏾

[@GuyDupont]

Ayy TYSM

[@JBroadway]

@@GuyDupont For real tho... Here before 100k subs 👀

[@onyshchukv]

I simply love this channel. 😅 Project are senseless and merciless. Just because 'why not'. Pure adoration ❤

[@JessicaFEREM]

what other things could you control with a thinkpad nubbin, gamepads, cars, the NES? the world is your oyster.. or thinkpad nubbin rather

[@nunobazarian244]

I work IT for a university and we have an abundance of old Lenovo laptops that have been getting replaced lately, so now I've gotta try this

[@nullnummer]

This channel is literally so cool I love it❤❤❤

[@GuyDupont]

TY for watching ❤️

[@stevenb8578]

Please make the ipod kit!!!!!!!!!!

[@timonsku]

fantastic work!

[@GuyDupont]

❤️❤️

[@domramsey]

Love your projects so much! But now I'm thinking you have a whole horizontal access to play with. You could adjust the hue or colour temperature with side to side motion. And now I'm thinking "Hey, you could use a trackpad!". Why does nobody make a trackpad light switch??

[@GuyDupont]

Yeah the color idea came up along the way - I think it could totally work with a trackpad (which is a good idea), but the trackpoint is so hard to use accurately that I wouldn't wanna use more than one dimension. I don't think you'd ever be able to land on the actual color you want!

[@rubymalia9345]

I made a lightswitch out of an apple magic mouse once :3 It was a lot simpler though, all it did was click a button on an app I made so I could control my smart lights with something physical

[@nicojpeg]

You could also somehow use Home Assistant or Hue (if thats possible) and avoid having to mess with mains power

[@GuyDupont]

Yup totally. I was thinking about putting it in a box on my desk when I disassembled. Wouldn't be as responsive but I'm sure it could work

[@svwolfpack]

Now do the rest of the switches in the house I dare you.

[@okgoober]

For the last couple days, I've been thinking about how to redesign the trackball I have. I think trackballs are too bulky, and the thumb ones are a little annoying. I see the solution now - have the left click on the thumb, and nubbin on the index finger to control the cursor with. It might be strange to see the nubbin next to the slider, but trackballs are already funny looking. Anyway, I shall call this design the flicker.

ok cool but now you have to make left and right control color temperature

[@satvikarora5813]

Hey Guy, do you think you will ever make the iPod kit? Just curious. I would love to buy one.

[@jero37]

My immediate thought seeing this is making X axis manipulation on RGB LED lights change the color.

[@northbot]

What does the second axis do? Who knows? Perfection.

[@Mellow_labs]

I feel called out for using two microcontrollers to give something Wi-fi connectivity. 🤣🤣 Great video as always!

[@GuyDupont]

We should start a support group for people who jam Esp32's into things. Thanks Tom!

[@DouglasWalrath]

make it so left/right does on/off

[@adamkoxxl]

Hi. Nice project! One question - is the RPi Pico really needed? Can't this be done just with an ESP32-S3?

[@GuyDupont]

Could definitely be done without the 2040 - ideally I would have gotten the PS/2 figured out and used that directly with the ESP - I just didn't wanna spend any more time/money on this 😂. The S3 also has USB host capabilities, but no TinyUSB support for that yet so I would have had to port all my USB code

[@adamkoxxl]

@@GuyDupontyeah, as far I know it uses TinyUSB for USB device and has its own USB host library (at least in ESP-IDF, not sure about Arduino). I've seen USB webcams and joysticks connected to ESP32-S3 this way.

[@GuyDupont]

@@adamkoxxl yup I was looking at doing it via esp-idf but then didn't wanna also have to do the http stuff in there too. Nice thing about the way I did it is it let me use CircuitPython on the ESP so I got a full webserver with websockets in like 40 lines of .py

[@adamkoxxl]

@@GuyDupont I see :) Thanks for the answers!

[@jumoogde]

Nice project as always

[@nyaa]

i love this

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

I'd honestly love to add a trackpoint to my Keychron V3

[@GuyDupont]

if you're interested, the hardware github link I have in the description is a tutorial for pretty much exactly that!

[@AlanPope]

Nubbin? I think you mean Lenovo® ThinkPad® TrackPoint® 🎉

[@PsychogenicTechnologies]

mm, twiddle the nipple to bright the light! Yeah, "but then"--a lot of my projects have had many of those, of late. Great job!

[@GuyDupont]

Thx Pat!!

[@frank.conway]

Yeah, that's pretty good

[@KangJangkrik]

Unlocked new type of fetishism

[@nyc90]

Super interesting project but I really would like to see the process, not the story afterward. Hearing the story while standing in the snow is cool and all, but I'm not learning anything from that. We want to see your strategies, your successes, your failures.

[@GuyDupont]

I know the filming/walking around outside is weird (I currently have no space to set up inside) but I would argue that the story covers exactly what you're asking for? I outlined my entire process until I put it in the wall. This is never gonna be a proper tutorial channel, there are enough of those and I don't think I 'd be good at that

[@DanielBogLab]

This is the worst and I love it so much

[@xCheddarB0b42x]

nice project subbed

[@dave.madison]

Brilliant! I love this idea. Nubbins to control the world!

[@StreetsOfBoston]

Love it! Watching it now. Based on your outfit outside, I can deduce that your favorite breakfast drink is orange juice. 😜

[@TobyMole]

Very creative and cool. Though just like using nubbin on a laptop, slow AF to achieve what you want 😅

[@girrrrrrr2]

This is absolutely the worst interface I have ever seen, you should be ashamed of yourself for having thought this up and making it. With that out of the way, I absolutely love it, do you have a guide or anything? I want to horrify my house guests. (note I haven't finished watching yet)

[@GuyDupont]

haha - no guide on this one, unfortunately. I don't think I could wrap it up in a way that I would feel comfortable encouraging others to try.

[@girrrrrrr2]

@@GuyDupont that's fair enough, dealing with that voltage isn't for everyone.

[@Derpalerpa]

I do love me some lenovo nubbin love.

[@ThaFedejp]

This is so dumb that it's cool 😂

[@YunsuChoi]

HAHAHAHA