The Clapper is one of those weird devices that is fun to use even if it's a sure sign of absolute laziness. To counter the laziness, you can build one yourself. Hacker and blogger Alan did it on ...

Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...

It’s essentially a New Age Clapper that works with IFTTT. It can handle up to six different actions, which you can trigger through a Morse Code-esque pattern of claps and pauses.

My friends and I had been talking about those old ’80s commercials for the Clapper, and it occurred to me that I could make a circuit that would dim the lights when I clapped my hands.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 26.6 million times, making the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.