{"id":107,"date":"2014-03-19T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-03-19T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T12:00:25","slug":"essential-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Essential Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon arriving at my house for this year I found myself faced with a serious issue: the sofa covers were slightly dirty. After a lengthy adventure in IKEA (a place I’d never before visited and never plan to visit again) I returned home with pristine new sofa covers in hand. But there was a problem. You see, the new sofa covers matched the walls in colour… exactly. Now, some people might have given up, packed up and left, but not me. No.<\/p>\n

10 meters of RGB LED strips, a few drops of solder and a number of burns to the kitchen table later and the sofas were transformed. With the sofa down-lighting allowing any of more colours than I could possibly imagine, the room was transformed from a dull white to something… Something completely different.<\/p>\n

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “But Jack, why would I ever want remote controllable RGB sofa lighting?”
\nWell, have you ever sat down and thought to yourself “You know, I wish my feet were just a bit more illuminated, maybe alternating between seven different colours”?
\nI know I have! And now that’s possible.<\/p>\n

With the addition of a Raspberry Pi and some RF control (which I can’t take credit for) our sofas could be controlled over the internet, using bookmarklets. This opened up a whole world of new possibilities such as lighting up the stairs with a warm glow, or communicating with people outside our windows at night using Morse code.<\/p>\n

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