This year being at home for Christmas, I wanted to put something interactive on the tree. Inspired by the Tweetmas Tree from Alpha One a couple of years back I decided to do something similar, using a Raspberry Pi for processing and a couple of Arduinos for light control. The overall effect is quite pleasant as the lights fade in and out based on the volumes of tweets. On Christmas Day they were almost solid for the entire day.
The full project write up is available in the blog if you want to make your own or see how this was made.
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- Test bauble to check effect
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- Eggbot drawing snowflakes on a bauble.
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- Drawing chistmas trees
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- Reindeer drawing ready to be etched
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- Bauble being drawn on by the eggbot
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- Santa etched
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- Baubles sanded and waiting to be inked and fitted
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- Heaps of soldering needed on all these LEDs.
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- Making the LED set up for the lights
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- A bit of sandpaper will diffuse an LED nicely.
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- Bauble shields being wired up to the baubles
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- Starting of a bauble shield including the 9v “rail” being made at the top
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- Testing the first channel set up of the shield.
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- Bauble shield ready to go
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- Test wiring for the bauble shields to make sure they work
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- Santa bauble on the tree
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- “Love Christmas” bauble lit on the tree
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- Tree with baubles lit
