{"id":30467,"date":"2026-07-21T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=30467"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:16:07","slug":"earn-your-junk-meals-with-this-step-counting-lock-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=30467","title":{"rendered":"Earn Your Junk Meals with This Step-Counting Lock Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hackster.imgix.net\/uploads\/attachments\/1977798\/_05teTI5tqA.blob?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=400&amp;h=300&amp;fit=min\" alt=\"\"><br \/>If you need a snack, Matty Benedetto of Pointless Innovations thinks it&#8217;s best to must earn it. To battle the temptation to gobble down treats with out performing some work first, he constructed a lock field that may solely be opened after the proprietor takes a sure variety of steps. The concept is that you just put your snack inside, then dial within the variety of steps it&#8217;s essential take to burn all the energy it incorporates. After all the steps have been taken, the door pops open.<\/p>\n<p>The lock field is constructed right into a 3D-printed case with a deal with that appears one thing like a lunchbox. UV-printed lettering and laser-cut acrylic items have been added as ending touches. A rotary encoder and a pair of seven-segment shows on the entrance enable the variety of steps to be set after it&#8217;s closed. A pair of highly effective electromagnets hold it sealed tightly in opposition to prying fingers, and an accelerometer is used to depend steps. The system seems to be managed by an ESP32-based growth board.<\/p>\n<p>In a take a look at of the completed system, Benedetto loaded a bag of gummy bears into the lock field and set the variety of steps equal to the variety of energy within the sweet. After that, he went for a stroll to get some steps in. A window on the again of the lock field confirmed what was contained inside for motivation \u2014 and this was needed, as a result of it was quite a lot of steps. However when the counter lastly reached zero, the lock popped open. Ah, the candy style of success!This snack protected makes you&#8217;re employed on your treats (\ud83d\udcf7: Matty Benedetto)<\/p>\n<p>The inner {hardware} (\ud83d\udcf7: Matty Benedetto)<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need a snack, Matty Benedetto of Pointless Innovations thinks it&#8217;s best to must earn it. To battle the temptation to gobble down treats with out performing some work first, he constructed a lock field that may solely be opened after the proprietor takes a sure variety of steps. The concept is that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30468,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions\/30468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}