Ambient Orb

The original Orb was a simple thing; a BlinkM on the end of a long piece of telephone cable plugged into an Arduino, controlled by the low-powered Linux server behind my TV that’s always on.

But it was largely a one-off; not something that could be packaged up as a Thing.

Since then, I’ve been slowly developing the idea in to a Thing. It is still a work in progress, but you can read about it in the posts below.

• Reintroducing the Orb 6 February 2012
• Orb: Introduction27 March 2012
• Orb: The LED Board 2 April 2012
• Orb: Fading the LEDs 8 April 2012
• Orb: The Middle Board30 July 2012
• Orb: The Bottom Board 1 August 2012
• Orb: The Base23 August 2012