Twinning my Room

Making a digital twin of my room with all the bells and whistles... hopefully

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Inspiration

Just wanted to participate in my first hackathon and noticed the project lined up with my skillset, no huge inspiration here sadly.

What it does

This game simulates my room, includes some minor interactions, and can control a real life LED

How we built it

Used Unreal engine to put the thing together and for basic interactions Blender for props and models C++/Python and UDP for the connection a small breadboard with an LED and usb power provider for the led

Challenges we ran into

Lots. Figuring out how to turn the LED on and off was a huge hassle, we tried like 4 different methods from disabling the USB port, uninstalling it, using some specific usb controller programs, and more.

Library linking issues... the horror

Figuring out how to navigate blender in 3 hours was a nightmare as well, its reported steep learning curve is very real

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the LED to work was like a 7 hour process to turn on a lightswitch yet I'm still proud

What we learned

Used blender for the first time, also figured out how to semi-permanently brick a pc's usb ports if I ever wanted to do that for some reason. Used a whole lot of USB related technologies that I've already forgotten though...

What's next for Twinning my Room

Nothing lol

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