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+## New-Year-Tower-Light
+IoT Tower alert we did on the last night of 2015!!
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+We make a tower alert that responds to github events:
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+- [Github] publishes repo events to a number of webhooks. But in reality, any service that speaks http can be used.
+- [AWS lambda] receives the github webhooks and publishes MQTT events. [python code](lambda/)
+- [Adafruit io] provides a MQTT gateway.
+- A little [ESP8266 HUZZAH] receives the MQTT messages and controls the red, yellow, and green lights of a tower alert. [huzzah code](esp8266/)
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+The live coding video can be found on [youtube].
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+This code was formerly at https://github.com/adafruit/New-Year-Tower-Light/ - this has now been archived.
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+If you are looking to make changes/additions, please use the GitHub Issues and Pull Request mechanisms.
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+All code MIT License, please attribute to Adafruit Industries
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+Please consider buying your parts at [Adafruit.com](https://www.adafruit.com) to support open source code
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+[Github]: https://www.github.com/
+[Adafruit io]: https://io.adafruit.com/
+[ESP8266 HUZZAH]: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2471
+[AWS lambda]: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda
+[youtube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnjIXlnaN00