What happens when you put a few geeks in a room with a curtain rod, 240 Nespresso tubes, some planks, some tape, fairy lights, and a Raspberry Pi? Well, apparently this!
There’s not too much information on how they made it, but there is a pretty extensive gallery of photos. When we consider how much packaging we waste, it’s nice to see some being reused for a project, at least temporarily! The Nespresso tubes are pretty nice looking which certainly lends itself to this project, but our real question is who drank all the coffee…
The LED fairy lights are voice controlled using a Raspberry Pi model B, nothing too fancy, but a nice added affect. Check out the video after the break — the voice commands are in French though!
As far as audio controlled Christmas lights go, we still think this outdoor sound-reactive Christmas tree probably takes the cake!
[Thanks Castors!]
That thing is a bit unsettling!
Like the Sword of Damocles, you expect it to eventually fall.
I think it vaguely resembles a Marker.
Is this convergence? MAKE US WHOLE!
I’m happy to see that they put the root on the top.
+nespresso coffe maker and nespresso shop bag in the background. Say, this isn’t an attempt at viral marketing by nestle?
I like to think they had to drink all that coffee in the process of building the tree.
I had to look around. I got that it is an overpriced coffee bean and maker brand by nestle, but I still have no idea what a tube of it is. Is it like those stupid coffee cartridges that are only slightly less overpriced than ink cartridges?
No, it’s simply the packages that the cups come in. The cups you put into the machine and get coffee.
I know two of the geeks who made this at their work, I guess it is only the coffee they drank during work :) (and perhaps paid by the company or at least the coffee maker). Yes we drink lot of coffee in France ^_^
Looks like a tornado looking for some gingerbread houses to destroy.
They used the word ‘Nespresso’ about 6 times in this short article. You can do the math…
I count two….
What impresses me most is that the manager bought so much high priced nespresso coffee, in a normal office they’ed have to make the tree out of old “Cafe Cheapass” containers.
Reminds me of the inverted xmas trees that constantly mess up Oklahoma residential areas.