npct

No phone contract tracer project (by tbensky)

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  • Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2024
    Back during the pandemic, hardware-based contract tracers were an idea. I built one using the ESP32; see https://github.com/tbensky/npct. In a nutshell, everyone generates a (non-centralized) hash for themselves based on local entropy. This hash is set to the BLE name of the ESP32. Turn it on and throw it in your backpack as you go out. When two ESP32s pass by each other, they both log the other's BLE name (hence hash). Later on, hash logs could be inspected and uploaded to a central server so you can see who encountered who. Seems like there's still some (non-Covid) applications for this (but I can't think of any). Fun project. Learned a lot about Bluetooth.

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tbensky/npct is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of npct is HTML.


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