Serge Jespers

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!