http://blogpreview.erikzaadi.com/tags/side-project/ Recent content in Side-Project on Erik Zaadi Hugo en-us © erikzaadi.com Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:58:41 +0200 http://blogpreview.erikzaadi.com/2026/03/08/shelterypie-a-missile-alert-led-lights/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:58:41 +0200 http://blogpreview.erikzaadi.com/2026/03/08/shelterypie-a-missile-alert-led-lights/ <h3 id="tldr">TL;DR</h3> <p>Everyone doom-scrolls during missile alerts. I wired an RGB LED to a Raspberry Pi, pointed it at the Pikud HaOref API, and now my family looks at a light instead of their phones. The LED beat the sirens by a few seconds on its first real test. The Pi is named ShelteryPie. <a href="https://github.com/erikzaadi/pikud">Code is on GitHub.</a></p> <hr> <h2 id="shelterypie-a-missile-alert-led-lights">ShelteryPie: A Missile Alert Led Lights</h2> <p><em>Pi-Kud, the Pi that could.</em></p> <p>You know the scene.</p>