The IKEA DRÖMSYN is a wall mounted cloud night light that’s perfect for a kid’s room. For $10 USD, it’s just begging for somebody to cram some electronics in there and make it do something cool. Luckily for us, [Jodgson] decided to take on the challenge and turned this once simple lamp into a clever weather display. It even still works as an LED lamp, if you’re into that sort of thing.
After stripping out the original hardware, [Jodgson] installed a Wemos D1 Mini and a string of fourteen SK6812 RGB LEDs that run down the length of the cloud’s internal structure. Weather data is pulled down with the OpenWeatherMap API, and conditions are displayed through various lighting colors and effects.
Sunny days are represented with a nice yellow glow, and a cloudy forecast looks like…well it’s already a white cloud so that one’s pretty easy. If rain is expected the cloud turns blue and the bottom LEDs flicker a bit to represent raindrops. When there’s a thunderstorm, the cloud will intermittently flash random LEDs on the strip a bit brighter than their peers; a really slick effect that gets the point across immediately.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen somebody take a cheap light from IKEA and turn it into something much more impressive with the ESP8266. Just like with that previous project, we wouldn’t be surprised to see this particular modification popping up more in the future.
For thunderstorms I’d integrate it with http://en.blitzortung.org
“simple” but effective, cheap but decorative, I love it!
Dang, I thought of building a similar lamp since some time, but he beat me to it.
Nice work! Thanks for sharing.
I wasn’t planning to use an Ikea lamp, though, but a WS2812 ring as a clock, with an additional WS2812 array + light diffuser in the middle.
Well, will happen when I’m retired, I guess.
I like it! Do you have code and some kind of writing diagram to get me started? I’ve been messing with the ESPs and they are a blast.
You do know you can buy these weather predicting cloud lamps right? They are only about 3000-5000 euro, so that might be an option for those who do not like to solder :-)