CheerLights
CheerLights is an “Internet of Things” project I created in 2011 to help teach people IoT concepts. I consider it a “Hello, World” project to learn IoT protocols, microcontroller programming, and LED light control. CheerLights is a global network of synchronized colored lights. Everyone subscribes to the latest CheerLights color, which sets their lights to the same color. The color is set on the CheerLights Discord Server by anyone.
Apps
SkyStream: Track Bluesky Hashtags
IoT Debugger: Explore IoT Data
Latest IoT Posts
- Learn How to Create Your Own MCP Server for Claude Desktop and Windsurf
- Official Arduino Library for CheerLights
- Updating WLED Binary on ESP32-C3 Devices
- Learning How to Use the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi Board
- World’s First GPT for IoT? Learn IoT From the CheerLights Expert GPT powered by ChatGPT.
- Moving away from X/Twitter: CheerLights is now a Discord IoT project
- CheerLights for Halloween
- ChatGPT Code Interpreter for ThingSpeak IoT Data Analysis
- Top 10 IoT Project Ideas For ThingSpeak
- Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s some IoT.
- On Air Light 2023: Easy DIY Status Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom
- Send IoT Data to ThingSpeak using AT Commands (Arduino and SIM800L Tutorial)
- Give the Gift of CheerLights this Holiday Season
- Internet-connected Lofi Girl Shadowbox
- #FearLights: CheerLights for Halloween
- The IoT Debugger App for ThingSpeak Now Includes a CheerLights Example
- You Can See the Earth Move Thanks to a Seismograph Board for the Raspberry Pi
- Early Experimentation: Interactive Twitch Live Streams, AI Produced Lo-Fi Music, and IoT
- Updates to the CheerLights IoT Project: Node-RED, JavaScript, Twitch, and Discord
- New CheerLights Installation at MathWorks Lakeside Campus
- Worldwide Network of Lights: CheerLights Turns 10
- The Internet of Pinball: What an IoT Expert Has to Say About Stern Pinball’s Insider Connected Platform
- No Code: Interactive, IoT-enabled Halloween Pumpkin RGB Jack-o’-Lantern
- No Code: On Air Light Controller For Live Streaming and Online Meetings
- My Toaster is Now on TikTok
- The Data Science (and Some IoT) Behind Great BBQ
- Predictive Maintenance: Going Next Level With the Ninja Foodi Air Fryer
- The Internet of Nouns: How Twitter and Foursquare Changed My Life
- CheerLights for Raspberry Pi Zero W and Blinkt!
- Adafruit Matrix Portal LED Display Diffused Acrylic Stand
- ‘On Air’ Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings
- Real-time Colors on CheerLights
- Lovebox: Internet of Things for Valentine’s Day
- (My) History of the Internet of Things
- Control IFTTT Webhooks with MATLAB
- ThingSpeak at the Boston TechJam
- Getting Ready for the Bay Area Maker Faire!
- Use the New MQTT Service from ThingSpeak for Real-time CheerLights Updates
- Use AWS DeepLens to Determine If Hotdog or Not Hotdog
- How to Reset the Arduino MKR1000
- CheerLights Robot for Your Nursery
- Measure Wi-Fi Signal Levels with the ESP8266 and ThingSpeak
- Learn How to Use MQTT.fx with ThingSpeak
- Are Open Source IoT Platforms Ready for Primetime?
- Twilio Rickrolls You Using Their API
- MQTT is So Hot Right Now
- Open Source IoT Debug Tool for ThingSpeak and Particle
- ThingSpeak + Particle Photon using Webhooks
- Particle Electron and Webhooks to ThingSpeak!
- Particle Electron Kickstarter Kit Just Arrived
- Seeeduino Cloud Starter Kit for AWS IoT
- ESP-210 Windows USB Driver
- CheerLights – What Will You Build?
- CheerLights with LIFX Wi-Fi Light Bulbs
- The Washington Post IoT Infographic
- Send Your Windows Server’s Disk Free Space to ThingSpeak Using PowerShell
- CheerLights is Back!
- IoT at the Small Batch Beer Brewery in Winston-Salem
- CheerLights is Back for the Holidays
- Un grille-pain high tech qui envoie des tweets
- CheerLights: my lights are linked to everyone else’s
- Top 100 “Internet of Things” Thinkers
- ThingSpeak: Building My Own Twitter (for Things)
- Automatic Thermostat Control Based on Location and Weather
- Toaster + Twitter = Internet of Things
- New Gig, Less Hotels
- TouchShield Slide Two-way Communications
- Internet-enabled Message Center
- First External ioBridge Project: Pet Treat Dispenser
