What if a floor lamp could feel you crossing the room and answer with light and sound?
That is the trick behind Bloom Chandelier, an interactive installation built around a brass floor lamp handed down from the maker's great-grandmother. Instead of a switch, the lamp watches the space around it. Walk closer and it glows brighter while soft tones swell up from nowhere. Step away and both the light and the sound fade back into silence, leaving a short trail behind you like a wake.
How does it know you are there?
Eight VL53L1X time-of-flight sensors ring the lamp's collar, giving it a full 360-degree view that reaches roughly four feet out. These are not motion detectors. Each one measures actual distance many times a second, so the firmware can react to how near you are rather than just whether you moved. The catch: every VL53L1X ships with the same default I2C address, so eight of them on one bus would collide instantly.
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