Finally reached a big milestone by dynamically fading a wireless RGB light node on an Arduino between two arbitrary colours! The Arduino is connected to a Raspberry Pi over a nRF24L01+ transceiver connection. Over a web app the RPi is sent the new colour to fade to and calculates the required fading data like the […]
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Update 21. February 2017 Since publishing this post, the RF24 library got updated a lot! A significant change was making the boost python wrapper compatible with Python 3. So the RF24 library now works on system with Python 3 out of the box without any funky hacks! If you want to use the RF24Mesh extension […]
So I shifted my priorities away from just a ‘boring’ sunrise lamp and am now working towards my very own vision of a powerful extensible ambient lighting system. The project has three major construction sites: a client application which lets the end-user control his light system; the RGB lamp hardware and its electronic circuitry; and last but not least, […]
I announced my ambition to build my very own wake-up lamp à la Philips back in February. I was pretty clueless regarding every aspect involved in such a project and it took me quite a while to figure things out. Thanks to the wisdoms of the internet though, it’s been a raging success so far. At […]
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Building my own Wake-up Light
During the Christmas holidays, I’ve seen a lot of deals for those new fancy wake-up lights from Philips. It promises a smooth awakening each morning with a simulated sunrise. I’d imagine it to be pretty awesome to have considering my painful Windows Phone alarm, which blasts bad music at me each morning at full volume. […]