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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