I retired after 40 years as a control system engineer so I had quite a bit of time on my hands to complete this. It took most of the spring of 2023 to get this completed. I have quite a bit of experience with microcontrollers so it wasn't much of an effort to get LED's to blink or play sound...
With the latest season of the show, I decided to take a shot at building a working Rick and Morty Portal Gun. Couldn't source any Portal Fluid so at least I have all the lights, sound working. I'll trade some death crystals for a few ounces of fluid. I used two ESP32 microcontrollers...
I decided to take a stock Time Machine 3D model from Etsy and add lights, sound and motion to it. I used three ESP32 microcontrollers for this project. One controls 5 LED's and the spinning disk in the back section and one controls 5 LED's in the control panel. The last microcontroller is an...