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.
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.
Ikea Hacked Desk and Shelf "Hutch"
Small-space desks don’t always have all the storage our work spaces need. Get a little creative and build some extra storage into an Ikea-Hacked "hutch" shelf.
Ikea Hacker Jessica needed to find the perfect small-footprint, high-storage desk for her 45-inch wall space. Her and her husband settled on the Gustav writing desk for a perfect fit, but a lack of storage put a wrench in the plan.
With most wall-mounted shelf units at Ikea coming in too long or short to fit the desk, Goldilocks was forced to hack herself a perfect fit.
"We created a custom overhead unit from two 14" wide Billy cabinet extension units, four wooden extra shelves, two doors for the units and a couple of glass shelves. Since the extensions are intended to fit on top of a Billy bookshelf, they had no bottoms. We used two of the extra shelves to create bottoms, attaching them to the sides of the Billy using Kreg pocket screw joining. To make the cabinet exactly the right length we cut down the remaining two extra shelves and used them to create an open shelving space in the between the two cabinets."
We’re loving the creativity. And Jessica’s tale includes a lesson for all of us: When looking to add more storage to your desk, don’t always look under the desk—look up!
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