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Adobe’s XD department held a ‘hack day’ for developers. Since we only had one day to produce something, I planned ahead and aimed to turn a vintage Simon Says into a build server status indicator. Since patience isn’t my greatest quality, I finished the project weeks before the hack day. I’m glad I did since I had to order many additional parts I didn’t think I needed.

The indicator works by cycling through the colors if the server is building. When the build succeeds, the indicator flashes green. When the build fails, the indicator flashes red. I used an Arduino Uno with a battery and bluetooth modem to make it completely wireless, so it could just hang on the wall, waiting for a build to start. Unfortunately, bluetooth eats through batteries like I eat through burritos, so that foiled my plans. As a tethered device, it’s not exactly practical, so it will lie in a box until the next time I show it off.