Raspberry Pi 3 Christmas Light Controller

Our giant raspberry pi menorah and how it was made we built a giant raspberry pi powered led menorah for chanukah.

Raspberry pi 3 christmas light controller.

Raspberry pi light controller. In this tutorial i will show you how to control five sets of christmas lights with a raspberry pi and the piface i o expansion board. This is a serious amount of lights all over this house to be controlled by a raspberry pi. Raspberry pi christmas light control part 3 duration.

Raspberry pi christmas light display home light automation. Warning warning warning warning there is a gre. You ll be able to control the lights with a simple python program which is easily modifiable for different patterns or triggers. Raspberry pi christmas light controller.

Raspberry pi christmas light control part 4 duration. He s the co author of getting started with raspberry pi and the author of getting started with beaglebone. This is a prototype to represent a house to show how it would work. Here s a giant animated menorah built by ben forta and family for hanukkah 2015.

Lights are not just for christmas. The ac lights are simple one color strands of lights but to give a more dynamic range to the light show there is also a 25 programmable rgb led star. If you re like me you re not an engineer and the thought of delving into yet another computer program with vague instructions might make you feel sick. The raspberry pi is a small linux based computer that you can use to run your christmas lights display with a program called falcon player or fpp for short.

You should have a firm understanding of electricity and electrical components. Since the board is pre assembled this project doesn t require any soldering. David does so using a phone to connect to raspbian via vnc. Matt richardson is a san francisco based creative technologist and contributing editor at make.

There s a full description of how the animation was made in the video. This light controller lets you control your lights through your smartphone or computer. Pireplace raspberry pi fireplace.