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

[For The Popcorn]

.... 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.

 

[ahsrabrifat]

Great. Let's see how long it lasts.

 

[For The Popcorn]

Great. Let's see how long it lasts.

Looks well made to me. I don't see any reason it won't work for years to come. The current for each pair of LEDs is around 60mA, so 30mA through each LED – that may be driving them kind of hard but it's a big concern, either dim the lamp or replace the 33 ohm resistors with something larger.

Regarding quality of Dollar Tree products, I have a number of their LED bulbs in service – bulbs that cost either [imath]1.25 or two for[/imath]1.25. They feature a state-of-the-art design and none have failed in several years of use.