Christmas Lights (Information Resources)

Christmas Lights

 

Do It Yourself Christmas Forums

This is a discussion about computer controlled holiday lighting displays.

GE Color Effects (G-35) christmas lights

Hacking (GE Color Effects) Christmas Lights

"...with a little reverse engineering and an Arduino (or any other microcontroller) they can be made into the coolest Christmas lights on the block."

 

Simulating and controlling GE Color Effects Lights with Arduino - CodeProject

Explores how to control up to 6 strings of GE Color Effects Lights with an Arduino. This article covers the hardware design, the firmware that controls the lights, a simulator for testing your light patterns and a simple programming language which is used to instruct the firmware how to control the ; Author: Keithsw; Updated: 4 Dec 2011; Section: Hardware & System; Chapter: General Reading; Updated: 4 Dec 2011

Jim's G-35 project page

" I designed a PCB that fits into the original "lump" that controls the stock product, and further decided to canabolize the stock board for the wireless component, a 434Mhz FSK receiver."