arduino rgb ethernet light :D

[theducks]

Some time ago (October), I saw Philips Livingcolour lamps and thought they were awesome and I should make one. I did some thinking, and decided not to re-invent the wheel, and make some changes.

So I made one, that is ethernet connected and can be controlled by a webpage :) I used an Arduino, with an NKC Ethernet board (standard Arduino Ethernet compatible, don’t use this one), and a BlinkM MaxM.

I bought a couple of BlinkM’s and MaxM’s from sparkfun. And they are fun.

And the best thing, I didn’t have to write much code at all. Thanks to this guy. It needed some poking to run in the Arduino IDE, but eventually got there. Problem now is is that I have about 26 bytes of spare space on the Arduino. I just hope I’m not using the optimised Ethernet library yet.

 

Comments

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome. Can it do more than three colors?

How much is that Philips lamp? Looks like it's only available in Europe right now... :(

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you give it RGB values of 255 per channel and can make any colour you want.

The cost benefit isn't great.. I could have bought one of the lamps for less than this has cost, but that isn't the point ;) I saw them in Singapore as well as Europe.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've been playing with an Arduino, too. Keep meaning to do something with illuminated clothing, but LEDs are both expensive and dotty, and EL wire is disturbingly high voltage..

[dilettantiquity.livejournal.com]

*glee*