Control Your Home With Zelda’s Ocarina

In the late 90s, Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a huge step up from titles that came before. The ocarina itself is a small wind instrument that allowed you to do various things in the game. Then again, a magical instrument doesn’t exist in real life… does it?

Hacker Allen Pan, who goes by “Sufficiently Advanced” on YouTube, decided to put this to the test, programming a Raspberry Pi — stuffed inside a tube reminiscent of Zelda’s Amazon Echo — to respond to tunes from his ocarina.

Depending on the song, ESP8266 modules can control various home tasks, such as unlocking doors (“Zelda’s Lullaby”), watering plants (“Minuet of Forest”), or even turning on the heat (“Bolero of Fire”). Perhaps playing the “Song of Time” to verbally tell you the time and temperature wouldn’t be the most convenient user interface, but what would an Ocarina of Time be without some sort of temporal feedback anyway?

Zelda fan or not, you’ll want to check out Pan’s video below!

UPDATE: Following the incredible success of his earlier clip (over 1.4M views and counting), Pan has now shared a tutorial of his build. So grab your ocarina and get started!