Re: A very Hacky Holidays

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Tero Koskinen expounded in
news:20101220232150.2d248a2a.tero.koskinen@iki.fi: 

> On 17 Dec 2010 18:16:34 GMT R Tyler Croy wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-12-17, Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > R Tyler Croy expounded in
>> > news:slrnigl66m.b8b.tyler@kiwi.local: 
>> >> I wanted to ask you all what you may/may not be hacking
>> >> on over the break, perhaps we could cheer each other on
>> >> ;) 
>> >
>> > I've been working on an analog synthesizer.
>> 
>> Wow, sweet project! I was wondering when an AVR-Ada user
>> was going to pipe up with a neat project.
> 
> My project isn't as cool as Warren's, but here it is
> anyway: 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/66708330@N00/5268293146/ 
> 
> A bunch of leds, which try to be in a tree shape, with a
> yellow led on top. Everything is powered by Attiny2313 and
> AVR-Ada. Code is available at
> http://hg.stronglytyped.org/attiny2313-leds/ 
> 
> Currently the processor always runs at full speed (1MHz,
> delays are done by busy looping!), but to increase the
> battery life, I plan to study how AVR's power saving
> features work. 

Have you seen those addressable LED Christmas light strings? 
You could cause a whole string of lights change according to 
patterns by using some little protocol.

http://hackaday.com/2010/12/16/chat-list-indicator-uses-
hacked-xmas-lights/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%
3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

( http://tinyurl.com/27ab8t4 )

You might want to explore that in the upcoming year. ;-)

Warren