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Make a Light!
You’ve probably noticed Kean posting article after article, detailing every step in making a Light. The series is complete enough that we encourage you to take a stab at it. Click on ‘Make Your...
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Demo: display the UV Index
Here’s a little something that was adapted from a URL in a comment thread posted to this blog. The real-time UV indices for various points in Australia are posted by the Australian Radiation...
View ArticleDemo: display the air pollution level
After I posted the UV Index demo, a kind person pointed me to some live air pollution data helpfully supplied by the government of Hong Kong. It was a very straightforward matter – using the awesome...
View ArticleSoftware Architecture
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works...
View ArticleHTML5 Web Apps on the Light
With our growing REST API, it’s possible to code applications for the Light that are entirely browser-based, HTML5 and Javascript. The ‘Countdown’ web app is an example of this. The app turns the...
View ArticleDemo: Photo Sampler
Here’s another web app that demonstrates how HTML5 and the Light can work in concert to do something that previously would have required a dedicated platform app. The Photo Sampler uses the HTML5...
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cURL-y Hue
Ars Technical has published their review of the Philips Hue, and nestled within it are a few highly relevant paragraphs: It’s a simple matter to set a lamp’s color and brightness using HTTP. The...
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Why not Arduino?
photo – equinoxefr @mpesce I am curious why you are using such a powerful processor for #mooresCloud – wouldn’t something like an Arduino be powerful enough? — Stephen Kelly (@StephenKelly) November...
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Prototype hardware design files published
On the Schematics page, we’ve just published the hardware design files for the latest prototype, along with some additional details. Keep in mind this is a work in progress. And although this means...
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Cheerlights
When we first launched the Light on Kickstarter, we received mail from some folks who had what looked to be an interesting project – Cheerlights. Basically it uses Twitter and some other server...
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Party!
photo – futursonic It’s that time of year, when we all go to a lot of Holiday parties. This evening I’ll be attending one – and I’ve decided to bring along Indigo, one of the three new battery-powered...
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Reinventing Fire
(This is a post about our KickStarter project The Light by Moore’sCloud. We have only a few days to go! please back us on KickStarter ) When I was asked to create a candle animation for the Light, at...
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Holiday hardware at a glance
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!...
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From LAMP to LISP
photo – cavorite As our platform has matured (Light and Holiday share a common hardware and software platform), we’ve learned a few things. For example: Apache is overkill on a small profile device...
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Three Flavours of Development: IoTAS, pure Python and Native
photo – camknows When writing apps for Holiday, there are three paths you’ll be able to take, as we will be defining, implementing and documenting three different APIs. Each has their strengths and...
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MooresCloud Proudly Sponsors PyConAU
It’s no secret MooresCloud depends heavily on Python and local Python talent, so we’d like to announce our first official corporate sponsorship: as a Conference Contributor for PyConAU 2013. It’s our...
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MooresCloud events at PyConAU 2013
photo – gjcross If you’re attending PyConAU 2013 (and really, why wouldn’t you?), MooresCloud will be doing three separate events during the conference. Saturday Evening Dinner: MooresCloud co-founder...
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Powering Holiday from batteries
Our Holiday lights are designed to normally run from a 5V 3A mains power supply (we’ve been using the excellent Phihong PSAA15W-050V), but it is certainly possible to power them off a battery pack if...
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Holiday Hardware is Open Source
The Holiday controller is an open source hardware design, originally inspired by the Olimex OlinuXino (https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/) – a Freescale iMX233 based embedded linux...
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Holideck – Development and Simulation for Holiday by MooresCloud
We want everyone to be able to develop applications for Holiday by MooresCloud; but we’re still about 12 weeks away from shipping our first units. In order to speed development (both internally and...
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