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[shatterstripes]

Two projects that are waiting on technology.

1. I think the Raspberry Pi + a wifi dongle is just about perfect for my plans of making some color-changing mood lighting in my living room. I should be able to make this happen in a couple months; they're auctioning off a hundred beta boards "before the end of the year

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[shatterstripes]

I'm waiting until the Pi is in production too. The Beaglebone looks cute but $100 is more than I'm willing to spend on something that is going to hide in a corner.

[ab3nd]

If you just do face recognition, you could have a painting that mostly only changes when no one is facing it, which means it's something you can only see out of the corner of your eye. If I had one of those, I'd be inclined to have it be something kind of normal when it sees people, and a much larger set of somethings odd when it doesn't.

Of course, given the state of the art in face recognition, it would not be hard to catch it in the act.

[pocketofheather]

Before I shifted to sublingual estrace, I was using .1 mg patches, two at a time, twice a week. So, a total of .4 mg per week. My doctor said that was the most she could safely give me because of my liver condition. I did that for three years, and the results weren't as much as I was hoping for... but I'm not complaining.

Good luck with your new regimen!

[shatterstripes]

Damn, that's even MORE than I'm doing.

[chirik]

When I used patches, it was two 200mcg patches at once, changed once a week (four patches/week)

I think. It's been a long time. ;-)

[jackfurlong]

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Changing-Romantic-Wedding-Decoration/dp/B004EK3LL2/ref=sr_1_57?ie=UTF8&qid=1323225046&sr=8-57

http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Flower-Romantic-Wedding-Decoration/dp/B005DFHAMI/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&qid=1323225026&sr=8-33

www.amazon.com/Color-Changing-Blossom-Light-Floor/dp/B005DJE522/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1323224981&sr=8-26

http://www.amazon.com/CANYOU-Color-Changing-Egg/dp/B00630H0E0/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1323224981&sr=8-20http://www.

[shatterstripes]

I want to make it myself for several reasons:

1. Most "color changing" devices I've seen have extremely naive color selection algorithms. Color is important to me, and I want to encode my color sense into my lighting!
2. Slightly smarter ones all seem to have remotes. I don't need a remote. Not when I can just build something controlled by a web service on the local net, and keep bookmarks in my phone, iPad, and computer.
3. Because I can, and I have this assortment of parts I've already bought with this kind of project in mind.

(Also everything you link to sounds like it is a SMALL object. I'm at my mom's place, where her slow net is saturated by downloading an OS update for her iPod, so I can't really look - but the Pi will be controlling a strip of tricolor LEDs around the ceiling of the whole room, not a tiny little knick-knack.)

[jackfurlong]

*nods* Now I see what you're up to. Lacking details, I thought something like the items I pointed to would save you some work. Sounds interesting; perhaps this post might be more helpful?

http://www.therpf.com/f9/daft-punk-thomas-helmet-skipped-few-chapters-112750/index2.html