Flash For Life

by Serge Jespers on 23. Dec, 2009 in Cool stuff, gallery

Music For Life is a project by Dutch radio station “3FM”. This is now the fourth year in which Belgian radio station “Studio Brussel” joins this project in which they collect money for the Red Cross. Three of their DJs live in a glass house in the city center of Gent and ask their listeners for donations. This year they are collecting money in an effort to stop malaria. Every year malaria directly kills 1 million people. Another million die because of complications from the disease. The Red Cross will buy mosquito nets to prevent mosquito bites. Each net costs 5 euro but can save a human life!

This year the team (led by Wim Vanhenden) at (recently founded) Little Miss Robot created an online project to help collect money for Music For Life. The site is built with Flash and it has a couple of really cool interactive features. The site shows a live feed from a webcam pointed at a plasma screen, a Christmas tree and a whiteboard. Every visitor gets their chance to switch on the lights, draw something on the whiteboard and leave a message on the plasma screen. The lights (100 LED lights) are connected to an Arduino board which is communicating with a Flash application. Every time someone switches on the lights Adecco donates 1 euro to Music For Life.

The site is completely in Dutch but very easy to figure out. So even if you don’t speak Dutch, you should be able to switch on the lights and support the project. What are you waiting for? http://www.odenneboom.be/

Great job, Little Miss Robot!

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11 Responses to “Flash For Life”

  1. Flashbanger 23. Dec, 2009 at 12:51 pm #

    Indeed a great job, Miss Little Robot! It works great. Nice spot Serge!

  2. Liz Myers 23. Dec, 2009 at 12:59 pm #

    This is indeed a very clever use of Flash and related technology overall. In fact, it’s seems like kind of a poster child for “multi-screen, multi-media” work! Thanks for pointing this out Serge – since I don’t speak Dutch, I never would have found this site had you not blogged/tweeted about it. I’m sure this will boost the proceeds. (They should send a case of your favorite Belgian brew for spreading the word.)

  3. Peter 23. Dec, 2009 at 1:06 pm #

    way to go Little Miss Robot – very cool!

    I’ll take this opportunity to blatantly promote my own little initiative to raise money for Music for Life ;)

    http://bit.ly/tshirtforlife

  4. Jochen Szostek 23. Dec, 2009 at 1:19 pm #

    Nice project. Do you perhaps know where this room is located in real life?

    Greets

  5. Wim Vanhenden 24. Dec, 2009 at 10:51 am #

    Thanks for the support Serge!
    Enjoy the holidays and have a good rest so you can continue traveling the world for us!

    Cheers man!

  6. Wim Vanhenden 24. Dec, 2009 at 10:52 am #

    @Jochen It is in Gent, Belgium

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  2. JuwalBose - 23. Dec, 2009

    RT @sjespers: Blogged: Flash For Life http://bit.ly/4w5Wxq
  3. Koen Delvaux - 23. Dec, 2009

    werd misleid door een tweet van @sjespers "flash for life" http://bit.ly/4w5Wxq die helemaal niet over de hooters van Mevr. Schoeters ging
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    RT @sjespers: Blogged: Flash For Life http://bit.ly/4w5Wxq
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