--- title: Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers | daily.dev description: A maker converted exercise smoothie bikes into game controllers to solve a college's cleanliness problem. The solution uses an ESP32 with a light sensor to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/smoothie-bikes-turned-into-game-controllers-cwyrsdxcm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers | daily.dev og:description: A maker converted exercise smoothie bikes into game controllers to solve a college's cleanliness problem. The solution uses an ESP32 with a light sensor to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/smoothie-bikes-turned-into-game-controllers-cwyrsdxcm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cWYrsDxCm.png og:image:alt: Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Smoothie Bikes Turned Into Game Controllers **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker converted exercise smoothie bikes into game controllers to solve a college's cleanliness problem. The solution uses an ESP32 with a light sensor to track a bi-color disc spinning in the blender assembly, calculating RPM and simulated road speed. The bikes connect via WiFi access point hosted by one bike, with a Raspberry Pi running the game, avoiding cable tangles in the mechanical parts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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