“This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely useful in it. Let’s go: Let there be lights We moved house and needed some temporary under-cupboard lighting for our transitional 1970s kitchen. Why buy purpose-designed, expensive and great-looking strip lighting when I can instead hack them together myself using hot glue and scrap wire? Then, I can value-add by using an ESP8266 module to make the lights remote-controllable!”