“Sorry, I have to take this”
I got really excited about last week’s IFTTT discovery and decided to make something I need–– a physical escape key for when I want to *gracefully* leave a conversation. Instead of asking a friend to come rescue you, just click a button to get a phone call you’ll have to excuse yourself for.
I programmed the Arduino to detect the state of the button (switch) so that if it’s pressed down, it will write an emergencyLevel of 100 onto the feed (see the three spikes towards the end of the feed line) and then built out a recipe on IFTTT that prompts a call to my number when it detects a value above 10.
Video to follow!