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Most holiday light displays we see this time of year are stationary, or at least confined to somebody’s home. [Marco Guardigli] wanted to take his lights on the go, and thought that a light up winter hat would be perfect for showing off his holiday spirit. In the winter he sports a sturdy wool felt hat, which was ideal for mounting LEDs. He picked up a basic LilyPad Arduino that uses a small … [Read more...]
They say that the holidays are a time to gather with others, which usually translates into spending time with friends and family. The folks at ioBridge Labs thought that while friends and family certainly are a big part of the holidays, it would be pretty cool to gather together flocks of strangers by using the Internet to synchronize their Christmas lights. Participation in CheerLights is … [Read more...]
Ah, the end of the 4th financial quarter - the magical time of increased sales, being at work the entire time the sun is up, and holiday parties. For [Andy] at National Instruments, though, things don't seem too bad. He built a neat Christmas light suit to entertain everyone with his brilliant persona. [Andy] always loves great Christmas light displays (he even blogs about them), so he figured … [Read more...]
It's that time of year again where the thermometer drops, the sun sets earlier, and we try to warm our hearts with the solstice festival that is common in our own respective cultures. Of course we all need a few strings of lights, but wouldn't it be great if we had PWM controlled dimmable lights? When he started out on his PWM-controlled, AC-powered light box, [Waterbury] immediately realized … [Read more...]
[Todd Harrison] took a slew of pictures in his quest to loose all the secrets of the G-35 Christmas Lights. These are a string of 50 plastic bulbs which house individually addressable RGB LEDs. We've seen a ton of projects that use them, starting about a year ago with the original reverse engineering and most recently used to make a 7x7 LED matrix. But most of the time the original control board … [Read more...]
[Kyle] was looking for a way to spice up his boring brick-wall dorm room. The Christmasqualizer he came up with brightens up his room and would make an awesome place for a rave. The strings of lights in [Kyle]'s Christmasqualizer are off-the-shelf Christmas lights. A simple circuit for the 7-band equalizer was built following this article. The build uses an MSGEQ7 equalizer chip takes audio … [Read more...]
[Ndsit] is having a party and wanted to liven up the place with some blinky lights. He's a bit new when it comes to hobby electronics, and although we'd highly recommend inviting some resistors to participate, the LED matrix that he built is very nice. It's 8x8, it's big, and (as shown in the clip after the break) the lights seem to hover in midair. That's because he didn't use a substrate to make … [Read more...]
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