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Christmas is Coming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-egg-nog dept.

Couple of Christmas bits to get ya in the spirit: We have a link to Planet Christmas as well as the tech details and even some danger. This thing features 96,790 miniature Christmas lights, 7.2 miles of wire to connect everything, 110 strobe lights, the 8' inflatable snowmen, handled by 425 computer controlled circuits. A slightly less ambitious project was submitted by apago. This project lets winamp control christmas lights, complete with schematics for the serial interface and source code for the plugin.

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  1. For the morbid.. by Xzzy · · Score: 3, Informative
    This link appears to be the "internet source" of the guy who fried himself on the power line. Criteria being, most pages I found relating to this event pointed to this link.

    I seem to recall seeing other pictures from this event at some point in the past, but they're turning up really hard to find.

    Turns out the guy that did this ended up surviving.. crazy stuff. Wish there was more info on it cuz these sorts of things always facinate me. ;)

  2. Re:Stop spending. by eander315 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I imagine there are A LOT of people who read /. who won't be spending money on gifts this year: the unemployed.

    All I want for Christmas is a freakin' JOB!