It's Amazing What A Buck And A Quarter....

For The Popcorn

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.... will buy at Doller Tree.


It's amazing what you can get for a buck and a quarter at Dollar Tree.

This is a voice command (as opposed to speech recognition) USB-powered LED lamp. It's self-contained – no wifi or app required. It responses to five commands:

"Turn on the light"

"Turn off the light"

"Brighten the light"

"Dim the light"

"Change the color" (white, warm or both)

I don't believe it's doing speech recognition – it's looking for certain characteristics in those phrases. I hink this is similar technology used in the VCP200 voice recognition integrated circuit sold by Radio Shack in the 1980s – 10 bucks back then which is about $40 now. For a buck and a quarter.

It works ok-ish.

As Clive says, I took mine apart so you don't have to. Not much to it – searching revealed nothing about the AF24C104254-6904 chip. It's the only active part on the board; there's nothing hiding on the bottom.

There is some hacking potential, like changing the color of the LEDs and there's plenty of room in the base to add a rechargeable battery.

It's a somewhat functional lamp that puts
out pleasing light.







 
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