![Noel created a wireless version of CheerLights using ioBridge and XBee Radios from Digi. He added random colors sequences and schedules using the ioBridge API to turn off his lights during the daytime and back on at night. The results are spectacular from the aptly named Noel!
I’m an avid fan of all things connected to the Internet (aka the internet of things) and love hacking and tinkering away in my free time. This year I decided to join other folks in a social Christmas lights experiment called Cheerlights. The project provided an API powered by the thinkspeak.com platform that allowed users to subscribe to the latest color tweeted.
[via My Web of Things Blog / The AppsLab]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/cheerlights/15311878882/1/tumblr_lxap98M2Vk1r7utfi)
Noel created a wireless version of CheerLights using ioBridge and XBee Radios from Digi. He added random colors sequences and schedules using the ioBridge API to turn off his lights during the daytime and back on at night. The results are spectacular from the aptly named Noel!
I’m an avid fan of all things connected to the Internet (aka the internet of things) and love hacking and tinkering away in my free time. This year I decided to join other folks in a social Christmas lights experiment called Cheerlights. The project provided an API powered by the thinkspeak.com platform that allowed users to subscribe to the latest color tweeted.
[via My Web of Things Blog / The AppsLab]
This is Ewen, the Cheerlights enabled ewok robot. He reacts to tweets made to #cheerlights, and lets us know how he feels about the colours you choose. Ewen is controlled using a Helion Microsystems USB interface board, and the twitter interface on thingspeak.com - Cheerlights is a project synchronising christmas lights all over the planet! Jump in!
Hack a Day lamp connected to Cheerlights created by Colin Sipherd
CheerLights Nativity Scene with nanode.
Cheerlights by PepperSuite on Flickr.
CheerLights Inspired Pictures from Flickr
We recently discovered the “Beast of Traal” photostream on Flickr and noticed some photos tagged CheerLights. What this designer has created is a webpage that pulls photos from Flickr inspired by the current CheerLights color. It’s really interesting to us and we wish we had more information to share. Check out the live site on MikeTilley.com.
Petter Solberg created a CheerLantern - it synchronizes to CheerLights and boldly shines the latest color with 10W of power.
Today, Sunlight Labs announced that they are linked into the CheerLights project!
CheerLights on Wired UK and Interview
Olivia Solon, journalist, blogger and geek with a penchant for animal-themed t-shirts, wrote an article for Wired UK about CheerLights. She wanted to dig deeper and contacted us for more information. Olivia’s article includes details on the CheerLights project and interview with the project creator, Hans Scharler of ioBridge.
“We live in a time and age that we are close because of technology than we have ever been. But, we use it for odd things. I wanted to feel the connections to others. In my mind’s eye, I see lights going on an off and seeing others notice it. Even if it is fleeting, we were connected in that moment. Cheesy, no?”
Check out Olivia’s other articles on Wired UK - she is writing about some really cool projects and technology.
[via Wired UK]
