Brian Jackson

Views are my own, but I talk about my day job at Industrial Light & Magic sometimes: #StarWarsTales, #VaderImmortal & #TheMandalorian.
Ended up in my best timeline. Ally

Admin for graphics.social

And while I run an instance around #graphics, I’ll also talk about things I love like #film, #homeautomation and #selfhosted services, #woodworking, #bbq, and #devops.

Cmdr @jaxzin on #EliteDangerous

2025-07-06

Controlling my smart home with a D20! Text-to-speech generated on a local GPU plays on a smart speaker in the room. Decorative lighting turns on or off depending on the roll. @homeassistant #smarthome #homeassistant #homeautomation #tabletop #gamewithpixels

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2025-07-06

I asked myself the Unreal Engine question, is it possible to create a Spline from Cable Component points? Easy peasy lemon squeezy. A static mesh from a spline component, and a spline from a cable component. What next?

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #tips #indiedev #GameDevelopment #UE5ぷちコン #UE5Study

2025-07-06

I've released v1.1.0 of my Pixels dice integration for @homeassistant which adds sensors for battery level, battery state (ok, low, charging), and "last seen" for passive presence detection of the die.
github.com/jaxzin/gamewithpixe

2025-07-04

I integrated my Pixels dice with Home Assistant!

If you have Home Assistant with Bluetooth support, you can install my HACS component too: github.com/jaxzin/gamewithpixe

2025-06-12

@hollowone I didn’t have an issue following @bitsavers. What issue are you seeing?

2025-06-08

She’s been a Star Wars girl for a while, but asking for a neopixel saber with a full-metal construction Leia’s hilt being at the top of her birthday wish list was not on my radar at all. The apprentice has become the Master. #geekintraining #geekgraduated

2025-06-07

In honor of its last day. Thanks Jim for an amazing short film that I hope to see again someday. #muppetvision3d

2025-06-07

Happy 19th Birthday to my favorite Padawan. I’ve loved every parsec of watching you grow. 🥰🎂

2025-06-05

Adult money perks, I get to buy a new Nintendo console to fulfill my childhood wishes. I might let my kids play with it too.

2025-06-02

It’s alive! Running on an ESP32 and ESPHome. Now to customize the layout a bit more and to print a case for it.

2025-05-31

@InstantArcade one of these days I’m putting it together!

2025-05-31

Went to work on a project today and got frustrated I couldn’t find a component I knew I had. So I decended into the yak-shaving exercise of pulling everything out of its hidden corners and organizing it. To my surprise I have a lot more unused Arduinos and Raspberry Pis than I thought. Glad I’m going to have them in one place now! #oops #maker #adhd

2025-05-31

@mrfusion I got it for $67 on Amazon. amazon.com/dp/B08J7GGRYF

Connects to Raspberry Pi or Arduino. I'm going to experiment with both today.

2025-05-31

This weekend’s project, turning a 7 color e-ink display into a home data metrics panel!

2025-05-30

Celebrated 17 years of service at The Walt Disney Company this week! This is me on my second orientation day.

I’ve gone through orientation four times at four locations over the years: when I joined the Walt Disney World College Program in 1998, when I joined as part of the Walt Disney Internet Group in 2007, then when I became an ESPN employee on paper in 2010, and most recently when I joined Lucasfilm in 2016!

2025-05-14

Don’t mind me, just sobbing at that ending. #Andor

2025-05-10

@jwildeboer I’m not defending it in general. Just sharing it worked for this one case for me.

2025-05-10

I hate to say it but vibe coding works. I asked ChatGPT to create an electron orbital visualized after watching a YouTube video that didn’t really display them the way I wanted. Two prompts and I had a working GUI. It would have taken me all-weekend to create a much jankier version of this.

2025-04-26

Ending a week of travel watching the first episode of Andor Season 2 and spotted my name. The novelty of having my name in a Star Wars production has not worn off. #pinchme

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2025-04-20

@brian @MistyMoose
I created my own as an external_component for the TSC2007 - should work well if you upgrade to using it in any ESPHome project!

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