By: Whatnot
“warm our hearts with the solstice festival that is common in our own respective cultures” Hey now, I’m atheist and so are a large part of the population, RESPECT US and our lack of festivals. (just...
View ArticleBy: compukidmike
Nice project. I still need to document my light controller setup, but I use a FOD814AS for zero crossing detection. It’s an optocoupler with AC input. For 120V, I use a 100K and 47K resistor in series...
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Huh, apparently after you reply to a post, the comment box at the bottom stays in that mode. Oops.
View ArticleBy: Waterbury
Woot, I mad HaD! :) Before the trolls come in, I do know I re-invented the wheel. There is a huge computer-controlled Christmas light community on the web, and I could have copied another design, but...
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Cool! I’d like to improve my design in the future, and I’d be interested in reading your post.
View ArticleBy: Waterbury
BTW, hackerspace plug. If you are in Central Florida, and are a builder, stop by our space! We’re 10x bigger, and we are looking for new members to help our growth, and help make us more awesome. :)
View ArticleBy: bearmos
Thinking about this a little more. . . The problem with zero crossing relays is they turn on and off at zero crossings, so you’ll wind up with a potentially really long delay – distorting the duty...
View ArticleBy: Ian
The creator, Waterbury, is a member at Orlando’s Hackerspace – FamiLAB (www.familab.org) I shot some video of the setup one night while he was working on it – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAumHTWa6Q...
View ArticleBy: sneakypoo
Since when does atheists have a problem with the winter/summer solstice? It’s not a religious celebration (well, it CAN be, but more often it’s celebrated as the coming of brighter days and such).
View ArticleBy: Vext
Here is a well done AC controller generally used for Christmas lights using similar methods. http://www.doityourselfchristmas.com/wiki/index.php?title=Renard
View ArticleBy: tedsmods
Yeah, it is from Tron Legacy. It was my first music sync test, and I GUESS he could have been referring to the inception of the music sync, but I’m guessing he was just confused. :) Dimming of straight...
View ArticleBy: Taylor Alexander
I was going to point that out too. Why did the author think it was Inception? Random guess? The TRON soundtrack is awesome and I’ve been listening to it a lot, so it was easy for me to pick out....
View ArticleBy: cyrozap
At the end of the video the computer screen shows the track to be playing to be from the Tron Legacy soundtrack so there’s no ambiguity here. It looks like the author didn’t watch the video to the end ;)
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