You people never disapoint... Putting a web server in a light bulb, I mean who the hell even thinks of that?!

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quite interesting to find hackable hardware in commodity looking smart devices.

advice for the op: the images in the page took half a minute to load (on multigigabit internet not being stressed). might be a routing issue between the server and my isp, but the images could use some optimization.

I'm guessing the website is currently being hugged to death, but the images take a while to load, and I'm on a pretty good connection. Maybe try webp with some decent compression to shrink down the filesize?

I can see using this as a form of "geo-caching."

I would suspect that the brown potting stuff, among other things, conducts heat away from the components.

I love this idea, thank you for posting it. It can be used for so many interesting projects.

I do hope you'll extend you work by making the lamp broacast the book by using light morse code

It'd be great to set this up to return files over Reticulum or another decentralized mesh protocol, so it doesn't rely on the Internet in any way.