billism1/hackpack-irturret-customization

CrunchLabs' Hack Pack IRTurret project and customization starting point.

IRTurret Control Code

This is the code from Crunchlabs' first Hack Pack box - the IRTurret.

I copied the the code from the CrunchLabs browser-based IDE into the default folder here. I modified it slightly (by adding the prototype function definitions at the top) so that the code can build outside of the Arduino IDE.

Note: The default code includes the header file, "PinDefinitionsAndMore.h" which (as far as I can tell) is not needed and the code builds fine without it. However, I asked the "Mark RoBot" AI chatbot what is in that file, and the contents here in the PinDefinitionsAndMore.h file I created is what it gave me. I'm sure this was just an LLM halucination though, as it seems to not be needed.

Useful Links Related to the CrunchLabs Hack Pack IRTurret

• Hack Pack Subscription
• IRTurret Information Page
• CrunchLabs Provided IRTurret Source Code and In-Browser IDE
• Official Hack Pack Discord Server

Customizations

I created a copy of the code as a starting point for any customizations. I plan on flashing and operating the IR Turret with an ESP32 which will provide more compute power, more GPIO, and has built-in wifi and bluetooth transceivers. This should make it fairly easy to allow controlling the turret from a phone, for example.

The Servo library (used by the code included in the IT Turret) is incompatible with ESP32. The ESP32Servo library (included in the "custom") code is a drop-in replacement for this, at least for the needs of this project.