I bought into the Philips Hue system but why?
After my blog post asking about which smart lighting system works best for me… I choose the Philips Hue system but why? Philips made its simple REST API public! Yeh! Seen activity of people hacking...
View ArticleBeware Philips Hue lights from the states
I bought into the Philips Hue system a while ago by buying the part I needed and then the lights afterwards. There are a tons of people selling the wired zeegbee bridge for as low as 25 pounds (I paid...
View ArticleThank goodness for the hackers
I’m now a owner of the Philips Hue lights after my mistake buying cheaper Hue lights from eBay (which turned out to be the American versions) and finally converting all the lighting pendulums to...
View ArticleWorm attacks over unsecured protocals
Bruce Schneier isn’t the only person worried about this type of attack. I already turned off external access to my Hue lights following the IOT bot net news. This is exactly the sort of...
View ArticlePhoto in the Manchester Evening News
This photo ended up in the Manchester Evening News, of course they didn’t tell me and it took a google alert to notify me. Lasers turn the sky blue as Manchester City prepare for Champions League...
View ArticleGlow in the dark kinetic diabolo?
A little while ago I mentioned how I wanted to see if I could create a kinetic charged light up diabolo. I have searched and searched and pretty much gave up till I saw a series of kinetic glowing...
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