Twitter LED table project mixes Bluetooth, IKEA & awesome
By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 26th 2010
We’ve a soft-spot for odd Twitter-enabled devices – anything that lets us follow the SlashGear tweets in unusual ways has to be a good thing – and so Macetech’s Twitter end-table, which also throws in some multi-color LED action, is proving particularly appealing. The project builds on their previous LED table, an IKEA coffee table wired up with 81 RGB lights in a 9×9 grid, adding in a Bluetooth Arduino shield for wireless connection to a nearby MacBook Pro.
The MBP has some custom code that uses the Twitter
API to pull in anything tagged #ledtable, squirting those messages over to the table. The tweet then scrolls across the LED array, while the app waits 30 seconds before searching again.
Major retailer to open at Park Meadows
By Chris Michlewicz
Published: 02.26.10
Michelle Holbrook, president of the Lone Tree Chamber of Commerce, said “retail tourism will increase dramatically in the area from this and the coming of IKEA to Centennial. All good things in terms of increasing visitor traffic to Lone Tree.”
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IKEA Storage Boxes Get Second Life as a Pop-Up Bar
BY Ariel SchwartzFri Feb 26, 2010
Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have provided an excellent blueprint for aspiring pop-up bar owners with their temporary bar, a modular white cube made out of 420 IKEA boxes.
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