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theducks ([personal profile] theducks) wrote2009-05-24 10:06 pm
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arduino rgb ethernet light :D

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.

Arduino with Ethernet and MaxM

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.

RGB Ethernet Arduino, in use

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.

 
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[identity profile] shifuimam.livejournal.com 2009-05-24 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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... :(

[identity profile] theducks.livejournal.com 2009-05-24 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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