I found an old R2-D2 toy sitting around the house and thought it’d be a perfect container for a custom AC_thing for the living room!

I actually got into some new areas of hardware with this. For example, a USB-C breakout board to pass the ground and VIN pins of the board through the small hole in R2’s body and out to the mains adaptor.

Also had a lot of fun coming up with the LED flashes when an IR signal is sent to the AC. I tried to somewhat mimic how R2 acts in the movies with a double blue blink to “acknowledge” received signals followed by a green fade-up to signify “charging up”. I think it looks pretty sick!