Daphne Oakes and Tiger Oakes
How to Automate your Murder Mystery
#1about 2 minutes
Using home automation to enhance a murder mystery party
The speakers introduce their tradition of hosting murder mystery parties and outline three custom tools they built to make the experience more immersive.
#2about 6 minutes
Building a real-time suspect list with Svelte and Convex
A custom web app displays photos of guests as their characters, using Svelte for the UI, Convex for the real-time database, and Thumbor for automatic image processing.
#3about 4 minutes
Automating a dramatic death scene with smart home tech
Smart lights and speakers are orchestrated using Home Assistant and Node-RED to create a dramatic, timed sequence of events for the murder reveal.
#4about 8 minutes
Building a treasure chest with a Raspberry Pi lock
A physical treasure chest is fitted with an electromagnet, a relay, and a Raspberry Pi to create a remotely unlockable prop for revealing clues.
#5about 2 minutes
Encouraging creative coding and hardware experimentation
The project demonstrates that hardware projects are accessible and that software can be used for creative, non-traditional applications beyond typical developer tools.
Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Eltemate
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Intermediate
Senior
TypeScript
Continuous Integration
+1
MARKT-PILOT GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
Remote
€75-90K
Senior
Java
TypeScript
+1
Matching moments
01:26 MIN
Automating a murder mystery party for an immersive experience
How to Automate your Murder Mystery
03:27 MIN
The motivation for automating escape rooms
Building a fully automated escape room
03:32 MIN
Using home automation for a dramatic death scene
How to Automate your Murder Mystery
03:32 MIN
Analyzing challenges for owners and players
Building a fully automated escape room
01:23 MIN
Creating a digital suspect list to track characters
How to Automate your Murder Mystery
02:33 MIN
Engaging developers with puzzles and tech events
Recruitment Reinvented: Bold strategies and the $10K signing incentive
01:57 MIN
Presenting live web scraping demos at a developer conference
Tech with Tim at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024
02:52 MIN
A showcase of creative and collaborative developer tools
WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Should We Respect LLMs? Is Rust Taking Over? Developers as Content Creators and more
Featured Partners
Related Videos
22:00How to Automate your Murder Mystery
22:33Building a fully automated escape room
Tomas Vaškevičius
1:32:50WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Build a multi AI agents game master with Strands & our weekly web finds
Chris Heilmann, Daniel Cranney & Tiffany Souterre
1:12:04WeAreDevelopers LIVE - the weekly developer show with Chris Heilmann and Daniel Cranney
1:16:15WeAreDevelopers LIVE – Real-Time Phone Agents, Unsafe VPNs & More
Chris Heilmann, Daniel Cranney & Marius Obert
1:01:44WeAreDevelopers LIVE: Scammer Payback with Python, Grok Goes Unhinged, The Future of Chromium and mo
Dan Cranney, Chris Heilmann & Brian Rountree
20:18Your Code as a Crime Scene
Adam Tornhill
24:09Plants vs. Thieves: Automated Tests in the World of Web Security
Ramona Schwering
Related Articles
View all articles
From learning to earning
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc
Remote
C++
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
+1
TechBiz Global GmbH
REST
Docker
Node.js
JavaScript
Continuous Integration
Jordan Martorell S.L.
Barcelona, Spain
Remote
Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc
Remote
£44K
Intermediate
C++
Unix
Azure
+4
United Kingdom - 2 minutes ago
Intermediate
API
GIT
Azure
React
Python
+6
Datascope Recruitment
Ipswich, United Kingdom
Remote
£85K
C++
Unreal Engine
Epam Systems, Inc.
Zürich, Switzerland
Selenium
Cucumber
TypeScript
Tricentis Tosca Testsuite