Believe it or not: LED mobile phone shell can also be programmed

Mobile phone shell seems to be a field of oil and water, the smart phone manufacturers are committed to doing more articles on the back of the phone, constantly digging a variety of additional features of this virgin land. Now it seems that some third party manufacturers want to go with them. Recently in the Kickstarter shelves CodLight cPulse mobile phone shell, has become one of the most ambitious and eye-catching projects.

This is compatible with the Android 4.4 mobile phone shell system of intelligent mobile phone LED lights, a light panel composed of 128 LED lights, and ambient light sensors, originally applied to LG G3, HTC One M8 and Samsung Galaxy S5, the shell will also support more devices. In addition, when you use cPulse to protect your phone, the shell will completely cover the screen, therefore, there are 3 buttons on the top, used to quickly activate some features. However, the same as the View Dot shell HTC, software and cPulse hardware to be opened between the interaction makes the shell more interesting.

The term "smart LED" shows that cPulse can make the light sensor and the application of its own built-in mobile phone related, thus becoming a personalized notification system, a lighting device can completely customize the programming (the company has a supplementary lighting scheme file format, to help users share their settings). For example, "LED", "CodLight", "enhanced music player", and "mobile light and sleep" system. About the latter, cPulse and its application claims that it can read the user's sleep patterns, in accordance with the user's sleep cycle, triggering a "soft color or color flash sound" to wake up the user.

Of course, it's not a new idea to wake up with a smart light or sync with music. Wifi smart bulbs (such as Hue and Lifx, etc.), but also allows you to get a similar thing. Codlight is also considering these companies as potential competitors.

Including the shell and the light board, cPulse will increase the thickness of 5.5 mm to the smart phone, according to the different models of heavy weight up to 86g. The shell from the phone's micro-USB interface to obtain power, and comes with a micro-USB interface, so the user does not need to take off the shell when charging or synchronizing data.

Critics say the gadget is power hungry. The company said that one hour of color light will consume 7% Ma of the system when the power is about equal to a piece of 2600 Ma when the battery is 180. This means that the user will continue to open the color LED panel, if only to remind the incoming call / SMS / social networking updates, power consumption will not be any problem.

The fun is that cPulse hinge and some camcorders and digital cameras for a similar rotation of the display, which allows users to freely adjust the position of the LED panel to match their habits, and can be quickly cut to the screen.

However, similar to the LaMetric and smart alarm clock display, cPulse will be open API and supporting cloud services as a public raise returns. This will allow other App Co or individuals with technical seals to develop their own smart LED shell applications. This is one of the many advantages of Kickstarter hardware projects. Different from the Hard Suits Inc, these projects are open from the beginning.

Codlight is also widely accepted 3D printing technology. The company said that the next step will be provided by the community, for the moment the most fire all kinds of Android 4.4 smartphone 3D model file (shell part). These files will be able to download and customize in Sketchfab.com. The original 3D file will be optimized and can be printed on the Sketchfab.com online 3D. You can also order additional electronic and mechanical parts at home DIY.

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