As we ramp up for the holiday season, it's time to decorate our homes and gardens. The Holiday Lights Controller project has been given a minor facelift and some new features. It's funny how some of life's adventures can appear different in the rear view mirror. A couple of holiday season's ago, I was looking for a simple controller to run a holiday light show. Commercial packages -some with music sync and a personal computer as the engine - were available but none fit my budget or simple requirements. So I rolled my own, taking on a project with technical challenges and a hard end date (December 25th or sooner!). I expected to enjoy it for a couple of months and then shove it in the attic with our fake tree before turning my attention to the summer. The project was featured in the November 2007 issue of Nuts & Volts.
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