Merry Christmas from Sergei the Arduino Singing Meerkat
22 Dec 2011
arduinomstr
United Kingdom
It's Christmas, and what better way to keep up the Christmas cheer at the RS Components & DesignSpark HQ in Oxford UK, than to modify a Singing Meerkat with an Arduino !
Sergei used to be a dull stand alone singing Christmas Meerkat, but now he's been connected up with an Arduino / Zigbee transceiver. Sergei talks to a laptop over the Zigbee link. The laptop also has an Arduino / Zigbee transceiver connected up to it via the USB port. The laptop is connected to the Wifi network and is running a Google email API. Sergei reads his mail every minute, if he gets an email from you he’ll dance and sing Christmas carols, which every one in the office loves.... ;0)
Send Sergei an email at sergeithesingingmeerkat@gmail.com, requesting that he sings for everyone! If he's not too worn out, he may even email you back to say thank you.
Everyone is waiting for the New year's present. I became really good when I visit one of the iTunes store in our place. The iTunes store started gifting applications in March of 2010. Almost a year and a half later, the Android Market still does not have any built-in gifting choice Resource for this article: Android users asking for app gifting feature
Steaming I'm afraid will have to wait for next year, until then enjoy the video clip. I did think we could control a whole choir of meerkats singing in harmony since the Zigbee controller could trigger lots of nodes.
I wish you could all see Sergei singing and dancing as well. I'll post a video clip. Sergei has received emails from loads of people all round Europe already. I've also had requests to get him to sing songs by request so maybe some kind of integration with a music streaming service is possible - something for next year! Any other ideas welcome.
Angelina
Everyone is waiting for the New year's present. I became really good when I visit one of the iTunes store in our place. The iTunes store started gifting applications in March of 2010. Almost a year and a half later, the Android Market still does not have any built-in gifting choice Resource for this article: Android users asking for app gifting feature
Stephen Lam
Very funny !! Want to get one...
miw01
LIVE STREAM!
LIVE STREAM!!
LIVE STREAM!!!
Do you want me to carry on?
arduinomstr
Steaming I'm afraid will have to wait for next year, until then enjoy the video clip. I did think we could control a whole choir of meerkats singing in harmony since the Zigbee controller could trigger lots of nodes.
arduinomstr
I wish you could all see Sergei singing and dancing as well. I'll post a video clip. Sergei has received emails from loads of people all round Europe already. I've also had requests to get him to sing songs by request so maybe some kind of integration with a music streaming service is possible - something for next year! Any other ideas welcome.
LStacey
You should get a live stream up and running so we can all see him!