Build Light

Published on Saturday, 20 June 2020

Build Light is a way to display your IDE's build status using RGB LEDs and IoT devices!

It's being built by @praeclarum on his Twitch channel the last few sunday nights.

It's an ESP32 device running a mini web server that when connected to a set of RGB lights will toggle the colour from red (for a failed build) to green (for a successful build) in Visual Studio for Mac.

It even has support in Alexa so you can turn it on and off.

For my first Twitch stream (YouTube Archive) I built the Windows version of the Build Light Extension. See PR !7

This was a fun new challenge having never worked in the VS SDK before.

I'm hoping to spend some mode time in this SDK for both Mac and Win and write up what I find.

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