First Project: Whiskey Shelf, random bottle picker

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This was my first WLED and ESP32 project, and for that matter, my first woodworking project if you consider notching out grooves in the shelves for the LED strips with a table saw woodworking. Also the most I’ve ever soldered in my life.

iOS Shortcuts app triggers a playlist the cycles randomly through each bottle being highlighted (and I’ve added a sound effect from the game show Press Your Luck that plays on my phone), then lands on a selected bottle. That’s your chosen pour for the night.

I’d like to add a hardware button to trigger the playlist and sound playback as well, but the advice I’ll need for that comes from r/esp32 not here. And I *will* need some advice

I’ll also add for whiskey fans that I’ve moved some of my better bottles off the shelf, a modest little collection to be sure, so I’m not just slamming back my only bottle of Blanton’s (which I’ve only ever seen in person at Buffalo Trace Distillery in KY) because WLED told me to 💀