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• January 19, 2012
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  Controlling a cute Ikea night light with Android on the cheap

  Posted: January 19th, 2012, 8:01am PST by Brian Benchoff

  Tags:  night ikea android microcontroller interfacing hacks  

  When [trandi]‘s wife saw a cute night light at Ikea, she had to have it. She actually bought several of these for when her husband would inevitably crack one open and start tinkering with the microcontroller inside. The inevitable hack is pretty cool, and also gives us some ideas for interfacing with Android on the cheap. [...]