ShitBit Analytics

Smart toilet paper roll for the inagural "YEG Stupid Shit Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon" held on August 20, 2016.

Tech Stack

The tech stack for this hackathon project was definitely a representative sample of hackathon-quality code :)

• 3 magnets on a paint-roller that holds the TP
• 1 reed switch that is activated when the pait roller rotates 1/3 of a revolution
• 1 Raspberry PI with a python program on it that polls the reed switch, and posts a timestamp to a FireBase server
• A web front-end with graphs that is pushed data from FireBase
• An Android Wear app that notifies you of Toilet Paper Roll activity.... as you're using the TP roll.

Tweets

https://twitter.com/stupidhackyeg/status/767146228358479872/photo/1

https://twitter.com/stupidhackyeg/status/767024620134281217?s=03

Pictures


Epilogue

Nathan and I won 3rd place.