After almost four years living in university dorms, I am left aching to hack a place of my own. As expected, I eventually decided to automate my dorm room window blinds.

What came of it was a fanciful bit of ultra-lightweight Arduino code.
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At the heart of this CommandStrip-stuck gadget is one original Adafruit Trinket microcontroller sporting a feeble ATTiny85. It sits next to a generic A3988 stepper motor driver.

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