Tag: Wake-up Light
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LED bed light
I have been working on my own custom wakeup-light on and off for several years (part 1, part 2, part 3). After getting Philips Hue lights, however, I have not gotten around to setting it up in my new apartment. So recently, when the need came along, I figured the quarter round rod I used…
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Wake-up Light Part 3: Hardware
This is the third part (part 1, part 2) of my write-up on building a Raspberry Pi-based wake-up light. At this point, the Pi was capable of switching 433 MHz remote controlled outlets and can be scheduled to do this at certain times. I had a few ideas on how to roll my own light…
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Wake-up Light Part 2: Scheduling
Last time, we had managed to get a command for controlling the lights up and running on the Raspberry Pi. The obvious choice for scheduling such a command in Linux is Cron. To automatically turn on the lights using Cron, we need to edit the root-user’s crontab: $ sudo crontab -e This will launch a…
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Wake-up Light Part 1: Flipping switches
I’ve had the idea to build my own wake-up light for quite some time. This winter i finally got around to it. This is the first part of my write-up of the project. In simple terms, the point of a wake-up light is to gently wake you up by slowly turning up the light before…