Chirstmas lights: is it possible?

Hello,

I think it's possible to do something like this with one arduino + lots of daisy chained shift registers controlling lots of relays to power the lights (LEDs). Manually syncronizing the lights with a song shouldn't be too difficult.

What do you think? Am I missing something? Note that I don't plan to do it (because I have no house yet!), I just would like to know because I'm curious :).

Thanks!

Yes. It's probably an Arduino running that... :slight_smile:

Each light isn't controlled individually, they're done in big blocks. There could be less 'outputs' in that than in an LED cube.

Edit: Yep. On the Youtube page it says there's 88 channels. Six 16-bit shift registers chained together, three Arduino pins to control them...a bunch of MOSFETs to switch the power. That's it.

Arduino is a small player in the Christmas lights industry BUT Arduino is in the game.

Good to know, thanks :slight_smile:

ubotbuddy:
Arduino is a small player in the Christmas lights industry BUT Arduino is in the game.

They'll learn eventually... :wink:

Not an arduino, but awesome, xmas light idea.

Christmas Light Hero

then they made angry birds

I was thinking of trying to rig something up before halloween, I found a box of old lights, but they may not work...