It’s not often that Chuck Shapiro, a 25 year veteran owner and founder of A-P-A-R-T/Together and one of the very first IKEA Assembly and Installation providers in North America, gives his stamp of approval on an IKEA hack or modification. Chuck holds high standards for safety and of course, functionality and is the go-to guy for answers to all manner of questions about the interior construction, engineering or stability of almost any IKEA peice, new or old.
Rumors are starting to trickle in…share your findings with regard to this spring’s IKEA Kitchen Sale! While there’s been no official word, or announcement from IKEA, IKEAFans members are reporting word of a Kitchen Sale due to start for IKEA North America customers on March 2nd or 3rd, 2012 (usually sales start on the Friday of a weekend). Click through to see what’s being said about saving money on an IKEA Kitchen this spring… Read More …
Dan over on trandi.wordpress.com has completed an amazing bit of IKEA Hacking. He built a custom bluetooth interface inside an IKEA SPOKA light and then wrote an android app that lets him control the colors of the SPOKA remotely from his android phone.
Just imagine having several of them around a room all color changing in sync either manually or controlled by an automated bit of software on the phone that syncs it to music etc? Very cool indeed. Dan posted the video above as well as providing a VERY in depth article complete with schematics, code etc that show exactly how he did it. Our hat is officially doffed to you Dan – amazing work!
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