Control Philips Living Colors using PC

projects modding & tweaking Colourful Computer Light Controlling the Living Colors lamp with USB Jeroen Domburg We live in a colourful environment these days. Everything is in colour: TV, advertising billboards, mobile phone displays and LEDs. Philips added a further dimension to all this with their Ambilight, Wake-up Light and Living Colors lamp. We will work with the latter in this M&T article. The wireless remote control offers interesting possibilities once the protocol has been cracked... In the February 2008 issue the editors when you’ve received mail, let the col- nate a room in just about any conceiv- disassembled a Living Colors lamp our of the wall follow the movie you’re able colour. In this way you can create from Philips. In this article we will watching, illuminate the room when or enhance a particular mood. The Liv- once again do something with this it’s time to get up, you mention it! ing Colors lamp comprises the lamp it- lamp. One of the disadvantages of the self and a remote control. The two are lamp is that it can only be controlled linked via a CC2500, a little IC from Lively colours with the supplied remote control. Nice Texas Instruments, which can send enough perhaps, if all you want to do For those who missed the article men- data over a 2.4 GHz radio link. is use it as a glorifed table lamp.