The First STEP to Your Smart Home!

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1. The real trick to home upgrades: just take it one step at a time ????

2. red light. you wont kill your night vision

3. This might be really hard, but what if you had the lights chase up when you're at the bottom, then down when you're at the top. A sort of escalator effect. Might be a cool visual addition.

4. I want to live in your house

5. On St. Patrick's Day all the lights are green but they sort of drunkenly turn off or on every 5 seconds.

6. looking down those stairs 17:05 I really struggle to know where the next step is I imagine the christmas is better but Lighter near the bottom and darker at the top would make the stairs pop a little more

7. @16:16 always great to have support! And then I loved how you went NCIS on use with multiple people using same keyboard. (there was an episode of NCIS where they did that…. that is why I consider that show a comedy)

8. Awesome idea, this gets on my todo-list!
   However, I think the soldering on the perfboard for splitting the powersupply would not be able to sustain the 40 Amps of your powersupply! Please be aware of the risks these high-currents potentially come with.

9. I did the winding stair treads in my house with my uncles help. We templates every step with strips of 1/8 plywood and hot glue. So helpful for getting the treads right.

10. To cut stair treads it's faaaar easier to use a piece of timber against each wall, then a longer piece between them quickly tacked together with a brad nail gun to create a "H" shaped template.

11. I'm thinking: Halloween mode. Maybe a deep purple and some green. Or maybe blood red. ????

12. Seems like the final version has the motion detect aimed before entering stairs top & bottom. True?

13. Finally, after two weeks. A new video. ????

14. Really cool, totally unnecessary

15. Cool project. only potential concern is the heat output of the power supply. Are you able to measure temperature inside the box and see if a fan might be required?? unsure if arduino has temperature sensors (beyond the CPU) to be able to use that to measure ambient temps?

16. I don't want my house any "smarter" than it already is. It hates me now, can you imagine what it would be like if everything was actually working together? Yes, I know I'm paranoid, but that doesn't everyone ISN'T out to get me…….. LOL

17. Love your channel. I am so going to try out your course. Thank you so much for all your videos.

18. Time? Cost? Great work

19. Hey There, great video. Well-told story and video outline, as well as a cool project!

    If you have time to dig into it, platformio (a VSCode extension) makes an excellent replacement for Arduino IDE with a ton more creature comforts.

20. vid hack flip you vid pre import

21. Great project Bob! Looks wonderful. I have just not sure if it is me or I did not pay full attention to the MCU that you plan to use with the project. I thought that it will be ESP32 based Project with Wi-Fi and OTA ability to control the code without the need of taking the MCU out and recode it every time – like adding new modes for the LEDs. But as far as I remember I have seen that you finally used Arduino MEGA and not UNO in the project – that probably be because you have ran out of GPIOs. Just wondering why you did not went the WiFi rout? Thanks for the video and the inspiration.

22. Makes me so sad to see carpet go T_T Hard floors inside the house give me foot and knee pain. They aren't nice to lay on or roll around on. When a bit of dirt settles on them, it accumulates into little bits that press into the soles of your feet. You have to keep them perfectly clean for them to appear clean at all.

23. Beautiful! Fantastic work, Bob! ????
    How about the Kitty animation? (From Knight Rider!)
    Stay safe there with your family! ????????

24. OK, what was the cardboard for?

25. Seizure mode, just blink them like crazy in different colors

26. stick a speaker to that, turn it into a giant piano and say goodbye to your nice stairs.

27. If you have a staircase that has access to the back side of the stairs, it would be much easier to run the wiring through the riser. Most of the time you would have an unfinished basement stairs that give you that access, or at least an area that can be fixed without having to do as much drywall repair that you would have in a better finished area.

    Also edge light “neon” led strips might push into the gap and hold with a few dots of silicon in the gap.

28. I made something similar about a decade ago.
    I used a uno and 2 tlc5940 ic's.
    And a bunch of pnp transistors.
    And 2 pirs.

    I only used white led strips.

    Yours looks great.

29. 3:02 Bro you look like a skinwalker tryna walk like a human does????

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