So I have been working on an antialiased vector drawing library for the Light (called 'wuvoxels'). now the nice thing about the wuvoxel approach is that it can scale across multiple lights seamlessly- allowing software to be written that will work on a single light or across a whole room.
Moore'sCloud: Finally, a light with intelligence to match yours.
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#42I will never be rich. I don't understand why everyone likes this so much. It's a toy you will play with for a bit then forget you have.
Unlike many gadgets people buy, I don't think this is one you would easily forget or put in a drawer. People use indoor lighting every evening, and this is much more than any old light. You just need to place it somewhere central, and decide what triggers (other than manual control) will change its illuminance/colours/patterns. Oh, and many basic decorator lamps at a lighting store are more expensive than this.
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#43I will never be rich. I don't understand why everyone likes this so much. It's a toy you will play with for a bit then forget you have.
Much the same could be said of most electronics. Toys gadgets gizmos. This is hacker news so I wonder how this sentiment belongs here.
Nevertheless, there is a conceptual barrier here that is difficult to cross, and it has to do with the expectation here that a gadget or product should hold our attention, or in other words, to be a distraction, in order to be worth our time and money. The light however is not exactly the same sort of thing as a game console- it's aiming for a different kind of niche, the niche of ambient computing. A kind of gadget that you /don't/ notice, that doesn't hold your attention. A gadget you buy expecting to forget that it is there- because it is just quietly doing what it is supposed to: ambiently communicating. A mood, a temperature, a status. It's simple as that. As geeks we can hack on it and overcomplicate things, but the essence of this is simply: connect a light to the cloud.
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#44I swear I want enough of these to build a partition in my office, so when the arduino that senses the light from the door opening, suddenly I have a wall partition that says Go away in pixel art
If you can afford to buy 96 of these Lights then I think you can get the project across the funding line single-handedly :)
alas I have only pledged for one...However, if I were to receive a Christmas Bonus....
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#45It is always good to see an innovative product; 'tis almost the essence of hacking, only in this case, hacking illumination.
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#46The Light is going to complement my LIFX wireless bulbs perfectly. I plan on using a bedside Light as a switch for my LIFX bulbs - tap the Light, it begins to glow softly and instructs the LIFX bulbs between the bedroom and bathroom to also glow softly.
No more peeing on the seat in the dark!
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#47I think this will be an awesome gizmo. As ZenPsycho said, it's an ambient computer, it just does what it does without demanding our full attention. We need stuff like this. It's a huge bonus that it can be hacked to tweak it to do more stuff.
I've backed it and hope it gets funded!
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#48I don't care even if I do play with it for a couple of months then forget about it. I think it's cool and I'm happy to help someone get an idea off the ground in return for the pleasure of playing with some 'cool' for a while.
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#49I'd like to get enough to replace my Christmas tree with a Light cluster, but I'll probably start with having one as a visual thermometer/barometer/weather gauge, then two/three for ambient night lighting and maybe one or two as network health visual indicators.
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#50It's such a neatly produced package, light+LAMP. I have some simple ideas for ambient monitoring and a power outage mode for the battery light... but mostly I think it would be amazing to see what a community around this would come up with!