Sunrise Lamp

A cheerful lamp that throws NeoPixel beams around the room and encourages sleepyheads to embrace the day caught Rosie Hattersley’s imagination

Russell Eveleigh

The gloomier end of the year can be improved with pretty lights and sparkles, at least so goes the thinking behind purveyors of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) lamps, while the festive season also partly owes its timing to attempts to break up the monotony of winter. Teacher Russell Eveleigh’s impressive Sunrise lamp could easily do a turn as a mood-brightening SAD lamp, but was envisaged as an alternative to a Gro clock. “Gro clocks serve to persuade children to stay in bed until a reasonable hour; in our house, the clocks we had been passed on were simply ignored,” Russell relates. Nonetheless, it was while on paternity leave that Russell began his first forays into Raspberry Pi project creation, using the Raspberry Pi Camera for a time-lapse of his young…

You're reading a preview of

The MagPi (Digital) - 1 Issue, #114

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.