Adam Stoddard:
Our house has one of those old, giant whole-house fans that looks like it was ripped out of an airplane and grafted into the ceiling. We love to run it on cool nights when we can leverage Sacramento’s fabled Delta breeze to maximum effect. The steady current of cool, citrus and jasmine-scented air it produces is deeply satisfying after a sun-scorched day.
It’s also the perfect noise machine, which as it happens, turned out to be a bit of a problem. Our son got so hooked on its soothing sounds that we’d wake up in the middle of 30F winter nights to the sound of our house fan on full blast.
A charming story followed by a walk through building the house-fan simulator as a PWA. Be sure to check out the animated pixel art graphics in the finished result.