We’ve just announced Holiday by MooresCloud, our casual lighting solution for the Christmas Tree or anywhere else you want some fun, beautiful, connected, programmable lights — with a full REST API!
Holiday hardware features (incomplete list):
- 7 metre string of 50 ‘globes’ in opalescent diffusing shell
- 1 meter runner, 6 meters of lights with 120mm spacings
- Globes are full 24-bit color capable
- Globes are individually addressable
- Globes are removable and replaceable in case of failures!
- iMX233 CPU running Arch Linux @ 454 Mhz
- 64 MB DDR RAM
- 2 GB microSD – easily accessible & replaceable.
- Atmel atmega328 microcontroller (drives the globes)
- 3 buttons (mode / plus / minus)
- USB with 802.11n WiFi adapter
- Controller board is fully open hardware
- 3A 5 VDC switching power supply (internationally compatible)
That’s very brief I know. We’ll go into full details – and schematics and PCB layouts for the open hardware components. Because you know us – we love to share.
More soon.