Tag Archive: RGB
Day 24: Gift box
With the last test in this Advent, we get really Christmasy. We’re building a reusable gift box with which you can delight your relatives. Every time someone opens the present, the contents are lit up in an individual colour, and…
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Day 22: MQTT Cheerlights
Today’s trial is about MQTT and a global project that was presented last year: the Cheerlights Project by Hans Schaaler. For everyone who doesn’t know the project: It’s about globally networked coloured lights that can be simultaneously controlled through Twitter…
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Day 19: Configuration page for the NanoESP
Behind today’s door is another cable. With the two cables it’s possible, for example, to place the RGB LED apart from the board. We’ll need the RGB LED today because the test is about a website with which you can…
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Day 17: Wake Up Light
Today’s project deals with a well-known lamp from Phillips, the Wake Up Light. This is an alarm clock that, instead of making a loud noise, slowly increases the brightness. This creates a type of sunrise, and one wakes up in…
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Day 11: Day- and nightlight
Behind today’s door is a 10-kohm resistor, but we don’t need it yet today. Instead, the set-up from yesterday’s test works today as well. In this project, you’ll build a day-night lamp that changes colours at specific times. Thus you…
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Day 24: Fire alarm for the Christmas tree
The final project consists of several elements you have been introduced to in the course of the advent time. One function is the Cheerlights function presented the day before. You can also receive the current colour of the Cheerlights project…
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Day 23: Cheerlights
Today’s experiment is based on a project by Hans Scharler that is called Cheerlights. The idea is globally linked lights that can be simultaneously controlled via Twitter commands. It is a good example of the world growing closer and closer…
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Day 17: IR module
Today’s project permits controlling the controller by remote control. You can change the colour of the RGB-LED with buttons you can choose on an infra-red remote control, and change the background colour of the website right along with it. Behind…
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Day 16: GPIO Control
Today’s project permits simple control of the digital pins D2-D7 per website. The status of the respective pin is also presented on the website, so that you will never lose the overview. To review the condition of the pin well,…
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Day 14: Webserver for the RGB-LED
Today’s project is about controlling the RGB-LED by web server. A well-structured interface can be used to change the colour of the LED. The website has also been adjusted and should be easy to display even on Smartphones. Behind today’s…
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