TwinkleTaps

This is a pretty silly, albeit fun project idea to build a lamp I could control via a website. And then perhaps, randomly, give access to it to everyone in the internet.

This has a few components:

• the Lamp code, which is an Arduino based project in arduino-main
• the web-app code, which is a Python FastAPI based project, along with an AWS deployment manifests
  • For development, best use the poetry-dotenv-plugin
• the UI which is using Vue.js and Nuxt
• the deployment to AWS using Terraform

Some plans for the near future

This section describes what I plan to work on in the near future.

• Actual Login functionality, e.g. with Ory
• Hook up email, e.g. from SES to Ory for account management
• Backend to receive "user created" event
• User profile page
  • Support User avatar as Gravatar
  • Support User avatar
• UX workflow - what happens after the user signs up
  • Welcome to TwinkleTaps
  • No tap-receiving devices yet! Click "here" to add one
  • Logic for sending an invite code for someone to be able to tap on your device
• Backend for CRUD on tap-receiving devices
• Backend for link between user and tap-receiving devices
• API key based auth for machine connections for tap-receiving devices
• Backend for CRUD on taps
• Very basic queue mechanism for sending taps out
• UI for displaying taps on charts, e.g. https://vue-chartjs.org/
  • UI for displaying current recorded tap
  • history UI for showing past taps

Tricks

• tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log to see user-data scripts logs on the EC2 instance
• terraform apply -replace=aws_instance.one_lamp_instace to force instance to be recreated