{"id":12545,"date":"2015-05-09T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2015-05-09T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T08:01:15","slug":"a-raspberry-pi-ambient-notification-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12545","title":{"rendered":"A Raspberry Pi ambient notification cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/achariam.com\/assets\/img\/prototyping\/cube2.jpg?resize=560%2C373\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago,\u00a0Matthew Achariam decided he wanted to create a &#8220;tangible&#8221; electronics project. He came up with the idea of showing notifications via a cube of LEDs. 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