CheerLights is an “Internet of Things” project started in 2011 to help teach people about IoT. Consider CheerLights a “Hello, World” project to learn IoT protocols, microcontroller programming, and LED light control. CheerLights is a global network of synchronized colored lights. Everyone subscribes to the latest CheerLights color and sets their lights to the same color. Anyone can set the color on the CheerLights Discord Server.