Christmas Tree Analyzes Your Tweets

It’s Christmas time. You have a string of 50 individually addressable RGB LEDs, what would you do? Well, [Barney] decided to try something different. He’s made a Christmas tree that reflects Twitter’s current sentiments about the holiday.Wait, what? We admit, it’s a kind of weird concept, but the software ...
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Hacking a Christmas Tree for Less Blinkyness

What good is a fiber optic self-lighting Christmas tree if it flashes so fast it will put you into an epileptic attack? The answer is “Not very good”, if you ask [Mads Nielsen] a.k.a [EcProjects]. So [EcProjects ] started a little project to slow the Christmas tree’s blinkyness down to a more reasonable rate....
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Mega Tree Game Display

Christmas may be over, but the holiday hacks keep rolling in, like this awesome interactive Mega Tree Game Display! [Lior] loves setting up light shows every year (just check out last year’s awesome White Christmas display with music!), but taking them down just… well… sucks! So this year he decided to make...
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Serializing Dickens to LEDs

[ch00f] managed to capture some holiday spirit this year by translating all of A Christmas Carol to scrolling text. Dickens’s work has long since entered public domain, which led [ch00f] to wire up a GeekCatch programmable display from Amazon. It has a low refresh rate, which means videos...
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An Animated Elf

Halloween receives the bulk of the attention for installation-type hacks, but [Stephen's] animated elf hack-in-progress provides the perfect example of bringing the Christmas spirit to life. [Stephen] constructed both the background and the elf’s body from a scrap piece of plywood, drawing and painting everything...
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Spherebot: Decorating Xmas Baubles

The Spherebot is an open source machine capable of printing designs onto spherical objects, such as Xmas baubles! The design is based on the ever-popular Egg-Bot, which we have seen derived into many other useful printers such as the Mug Plotter, and the Ping Pong Printer.The Spherebot features two stepper...
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CartoLucci: A Candle-Powered Christmas Card

If you’re looking for a last-minute Christmas present, you probably won’t have enough time to reproduce [Helmar's] candle-powered Christmas card. He’s been working on it for a few years now, since his first prototype in 2010. Though he pieced together the original card with parts lying around his workshop,...
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