This Arduino-powered lamp alters itself to match the weather outside

Sappy couple alert! Say you’re sitting in your apartment watching the sky get stormy beyond your window. Your baby’s not near but you want to share the moment, and that’s where Patch of Sky comes in. The fixtures wirelessly link up to your location and remotely mirror the weather wherever you’re at. The series was designed by a team at Fabrica, a creative research center that’s pretty much always got some kind of crazy cool projects going on. Using Arduino and an Internet-of-things bridge between hardware and software by BERGCloud, the three ambient illuminators can be registered to a particular Facebook account; that current forecast is then communicated to the lamps themselves, which flicker, glow, and pulse in time with whatever Mother Nature’s up to outside.