Controlling Christmas Lights With Your Computer

We ll start with the original christmas light.

Controlling christmas lights with your computer.

Smart christmas lights are not so new. Your lights are connected to your home wired or wireless network so you can place your lights anywhere in the house or in the yard controlled and animated from the comfort of your computer. Or turn off some lights and leave the others on. I had christmas lights controlled by a commodore 64 computer in 1985 and it is still being used this year.

Start out by soldering the led indicators to the pcb board and associating them with the 6. Anywhere from 32 64 would be a good starting point. The lights the control circuitry and the sequencing. 2015 johnson family dubstep christmas light show featured on abc s the great christmas light fight duration.

There are three key things that make up a christmas light show. These lights are a slave to your commands. Munster indiana dogwood at camelia about 25 miles se of chicago. Living light shows recommended for you 11 05.

Computer control of christmas lights decide how many channels you want to use. We are quickly going to break into two different paths. Computer controlled musical christmas lights step 1. Ok let s start at the top down and i ll be quick here as most techies would guess this upfront.

The beauty is once you create multiple controllers as you add more lights to your house xlights makes them all work together as a show. You can control these christmas lights through an app. Light o rama provides the hardware and software to make the magic that dazzles the crowds. The engineer s guide to diy computer controlled holiday lights top level.

You can make them shine and blink with particular patterns. One channel could be one bush one doorway etc. And there are now various smart lights available online or in store. If you are a tech savy person who can work with soldering equipments and have basic.

The lights are arranged together to form different props like leaping arches.