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by jeffbarr 5349 days ago
That looks great. Will you be posting any info about how you did this?
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Yes, I will. When I've got it doing something useful I will post a full blog post with details and also with the source code etc.

Some more pictures to give you the idea:

1. All the LEDs removed from the cable and stuck into a specially drilled piece of thin plywood: http://yfrog.com/hwy2snj

2. Reverse of the plywood showing the bulb with all the cables cut. Had to cut, strip and solder all 288 cables back in place: http://yfrog.com/j2xp8gsj

3. Little shot of the rewiring on the back. The colored pieces are tiny bits of heatshrink that I put in place to insulate everything: http://yfrog.com/nzh3ngdj

Here's a good post from someone hacking these Christmas lights, and reverse engineering the protocol: http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/