Oh well.
Man down They're fine.
You know what they all look pretty fine, so.
This is a neat easter egg hunt.
Things are good.
better than.
How about here?
Can you see this one?
I really want to hand these out for Christmas.
It's really cool holding these.
And on the right is just past the pear tree.
Oh is that what it is?
Oh, that's so much cooler.
I like trains.
Trains!
I can't even describe what it's like to walk through the field of lights.
It's really cool walking throug the field of lights.
I can't really see the ground.
What about now?
Ok.
What does the camera look like?
The screen?
It looks very dim like there's a bunch of fireflies.
And now the, still dim.
Oh no.
There it is.
Oh yes.
Look at the in unison.
Dance my badges, dance.
The ones that are blurry are.
Oh, do that again.
It was cool.
Can you make it so it's always doing RSSI and throw it.
You can solder it.
Yeah, let's do that.
we we've finally done it.
The lawn is actually made out of lava.
Coming. you went by the window and it light back up.
You went by the window and it lit back up.
so if you stand in the middle and hold it over my head.
Toss it across the field?
I'm not good at catching you do not want that.
Ok Go.
Apparently I'm pretty good at soldering.
Ok.
Whoah.
[mumbling].
Oh.
It's a flashlight.
If we could make it so it was always doing RSSI and you could just throw it.
We could solder.
Stand in the middle and do it.
Oh yeah.
They all look like the same color to me, too.
I didn't even notice it.
Oh that's weird.
It's like a color filter in front of your face.
It reminds me of an art piece I saw to check when you blinked.
They'd choose one person in the room to when they blinked they'd turn out the lights.
So, everyone else would see this flash and you don't notice anything.
Oh, do that again.
Slowly.
You can see the shadow of your body.
Hold it out and rotate.
Oh, I can look in the reflection.
Oh cool.
I do not see any that are not red.
Jill, do you want to play with it?
I'm good.
Cause I literally do not see any non-red ones.
Yeah for us we're watching you turn around and around.
And for me I'm like "this is normal" Oh look at the ones on Jill's car.
The ones on the back of her car.
Oh.
Can you throw it to me?
Yay.
I just have it held to the back of my head.
I don't even know what it looks like.
It's doing a lateral stripe past your feet when you bend down.
so there's a red strip which is below your feet.
Now it's in front of you, now it's behind you.
What if we tied a string to it and swung it around.
Let's see how far away it works.
That's really bad dropoff.
We can change the range.
The range is set really tight.
I like when you set perfectly still it is pretty much stable.
And you move a little tiny bit and it's like whoop.
That's awesome.
And really hard.
that was really cool.
This is probably strong enough.
yeah.
I gotta know what the internet is talking about now.
Now I just wanna put a bunch of these on a car and the controller on the steering wheel
and see.
Like super turn signals.
I've attached a string.
It's really blurry or something.
I guess mark is gonna go spin it now.
go for it.
Actually may I have the string.
Watch out for the trees.
so, for those of you who are just getting in now.
This is a field of MAGFest swadges which are ESP8266s in a mode where there's a special
swadge that mark is right now spinning around in there that when they receive the signal
from that swadge, they change the color, porportional to the signal strength, with purple being
the highes then blue then green then yellow then red.
Nope they're not rechargable.
They're alkaline batteries.
Lots of alkaline batteries.
So, right now, you can see it pulsing as it spins.
You're gonna twist that twine so much it's going to break.
End up on the roof.
I guess all the things that are gonna break are like the windows on your car.
Yeah, the, you can see it flickering at the same rate it's spinning.
New wifi nunchucks.
There's only so many colors like.
We only have a couple because it's such a small range.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh yes.
If I let it down more my shadow is more effective.
You can clearly see.
Actually, is it possible to?
It would have been possible for me to send colorchord out but I don't know.
So if I do this it's like a sunrise.
♫Whistling "Morning Mood" by Grieg♫
I have a screen up there on the other side of the screen is dylan.
Dylan is allowing an admin badge to pendulum back and forth.
Down here, a sea of swadges.
And you are seeing them turn from colors to red as the pendulm goes behind the screen
and in front.
In fact all of the light from the sea of swadges is causing that panel up there to turn from
blue when it goes in front of the open window to red when it goes in front of the screen
because screen attenuates wifi.
Well thank you everybody for coming out and checking out the fun with what is this 160
swadges?
175.