What dark magic is this! Very cool repurposing of technology. If you don't mind me asking - what's the origin of the name Tommy?

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mike2872 12 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Honestly, it doesn't stand for anything! A couple years ago I was playing around with the concept and a song came on that mentioned "Tommy" repeatedly. I jokingly started calling it Tommy when talking to my girlfriend about it.

So every time the lights turned on or off it was "Tommy who did it" and the name just stuck. Now I'm too invested to change it.

There's a dedicated thread on the Discord channel where people are coming up with good ideas for what TOMMY stands for. Some of the suggestions are "Totally Overengineered Motion Monitoring" and "Through-Obstacle Motion Monitoring". People are still working on what the Y should stand for.

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one_more_q 12 days ago | parent | next [-]

Tommi, ich glaub, ich hab Heimweh Ich will mal wieder am Rhein steh′n Einfach hineinseh'n Zuschau′n, wie Schiffe vorbeizieh'n

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snovv_crash 12 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm guessing that it was Tommy can you hear me? by The Who.

	▲	mike2872 12 days ago \| parent [-]
		Great guess! But it was actually a song called Tommy from an artist called Walker.