BOBBY THE LAMP

💡 An interactive art piece for the internet.

Bobby the Lamp is an interactive art display that demonstrates the unity of the internet. Bobby is an LED color-changing panel that can be changed to any color, from any location, by any person. While the world may feel huge, the goal of this project is to demonstrate how the network of computers that we call the internet can help make us more interconnected. “Bobby” has 600 individual LEDs, a central control box that handles all of the incoming web requests, a two-foot by four-foot frame, and a 1.5-millimeter polycarbonate diffuser that creates the glowing effect from the panel once a request is received. The panel is located in my home.