![]() ![]() Join us after the break for a closer look a the project, and to see the team’s presentation video.Ĭontinue reading “Gesture Controller For Roku And Universal Keyboard Built By UCPLA Dream Team” → Posted in Hackaday Columns, The Hackaday Prize Tagged 2020 Hackaday Prize, assistive device, Dream Team challenge, gesture control, keyboard, keypad, roku, UCPLA The work of the Dream Team project is in, and today we’re taking a look at United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles (UCPLA) project which not only designed and built a universal remote for those affected with this condition, but also went to great lengths to make sure that “universal” was built into the software and user experience just as much as it was built into the hardware itself. To go along with this, the Dream Team challenge set out a two-month design and build program with small teams whose members each received a $6,000 stipend to work full time on a specific build. The coolest part of this year’s Hackaday Prize is teaming up with four nonprofit groups that outlined real-world challenges to tackle as part of the prize. Video after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Roku TV Hacked To Run Philips Ambilight Setup” → Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged ambilight, hue, philips hue, roku, roku tv, smart tv, smart tv hacks, tv, tv hacks Alternatively, you could always follow the CIA’s example and turn your Samsung TV into a covert listening device. We’d love to see more hacks of this calibre done on smart TVs after all, there’s plenty of horsepower under the hood in many cases. It’s a great hack and doesn’t skimp on the granular fine details of what it took to get this custom code running on the Roku TV. This data is then passed to a laptop, which displays the relevant colors on its own screen, where the standard Philips Hue Sync app handles the Ambilight duties. It then breaks up the screen into sections and averages the color in each area. The hack consists of a custom app running on the Roku hardware, which uses the in-built Roku libraries to capture frames of whatever is being displayed on the TV. Instead, realised that the Roku-enabled TV should be more than capable of working with the Ambilight system, given the capability of its inbuilt hardware. Most off-the-shelf solutions involve feeding sources, like Chromecasts or game consoles, to a HDMI splitter and then to a PC running the Ambilight software, but it gets messy real quick. The core of the hack came about because TV doesn’t work natively with Philips Ambilight technology. realised that this technology could instead be used to feed data to a computer to run a Philips Ambilight setup natively from whatever the TV displays. Roku TVs are interesting beasts, which use automatic content recognition on whatever you happen to be watching in order to market online streaming services direct to your loungeroom. ![]()
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