Christmas light hack

Tamara Weatherbee , who claims she's ''Just a mom tryna survive'', is mostly known for her parenting hacks. But being a busy mum is not easy - and Tamara definitely can't afford to waste precious time, especially on decorations. Instead of having to constantly go around the tree all the time until you or your kids get dizzy, Tamara emphasises that it's important to start at the bottom.

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They are glass and steel constructions containing a current-visualizing fluid. So go ahead, turn your Christmas Tree in to a work of Art! Listen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. No matter how hard you fight it, the facts are the facts: the holidays are over.

Retailers are now gearing up for their next big selling season, which means right now clearance racks the world over are likely to be playing home to holiday lights and decor.

This device advertises the ability to project multi-color custom messages and animations on your wall, and is configured over Bluetooth with a companion application on your Android or iOS device. Around this time last year, the regular Hackaday reader may recall I did a teardown for a Christmas laser projector. Inside we found red, green, and blue lasers of considerable power, as well as all the optics and support hardware to get them running.

Hackaday readers have certainly seen more than a few persistence of vision POV displays at this point, which usually take the form of a spinning LED array which needs to run up to a certain speed before the message becomes visible. The idea is that the LEDs rapidly blink out a part of the overall image, and when they get spinning fast enough your brain stitches the image together into something legible.

But [Andy Doswell] has recently taken an interesting alternate approach to this common technique. In a blog post, [Andy] gives some high level details on the build. Made up of an Arduino, eight LEDs, and the appropriate current limiting resistors on a scrap piece of perfboard; the display is stuck on his window frame so anyone passing by the house can see it.

When she isn't writing about trends, makeovers and houseplant care, she spends her free time making tweaks to her rented flat in North London. Her next project is a very basic armchair reupholstering job to help create a cosy reading nook in her living room.

She loves browsing antique centres, tending to her small front garden, and is never without some fresh flowers at home.

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