Comments on: Sound activated christmas lights

By: Malbiz

Malbiz — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:19:56 +0000

can someone recommend me a book or something to learn about this stuff?

By: Morden

Morden — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:31:09 +0000

Christmas lights are required to have fuses in the plug. If you are talking about a pre-relay fuse then yeah, it’s missing. But the circuit has one built in with the lights.

By: atrain

atrain — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:45:56 +0000

Other than the scarily thin wire he’s using for mains, another thing missing from this project is a fuse…

I have a setup like this running off my computer (via parallel) right now. Using palace-dci software that runs different relays based on frequency, resulting cool displays (different lights flashing differently to the music). Though, I haven’t upgraded to SSRs yet so its loud as hell.

I’m looking into porting Palace to jack, but don’t know jack ;) about linux audio devel. Doesn’t look too hard if anybody wants to give it a go. (I’m riddled w/exams so don’t have much time right now.)

By: theweirdness

theweirdness — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:45:46 +0000

yeah, the gauge of that wire kinda frightens me, (well the whole project kinda gives me the willies) but it is a quick and dirty hack that has some semi decent results, lets pray to god this guy does not plan on chaining together 10 more strands to this circuit…

By: Roy van Rijn

Roy van Rijn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:34:27 +0000

This needs to be combined with the hack below :)

Sound activated smell and lights in the bathroom.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:19:47 +0000

i would _never_ use wire that thin for mains power.

now i know someone’s going to say “but if the lights use x many watts, then u only need wire thats blah blah blah gauge”. still, safety first.

By: J

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:19:35 +0000

10″ subs + my pc’s cold cathodes + this =

really obnoxious and definitely illegal car under lighting.