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Here’s Zedomax Christmas DIY #2, a “better” version of Christmas Light Controller.

Garrett has been building this cool voice activated Christmas Light controller.

It’s a Christmas Light Controller that can be voice activated or set your Christmas
lights to different programmed modes. Garrett explains the source code in detail.
The source code is open-source, so you can skip programming and simply copy
and paste his code.

Basically the Christmas Lights respond to the sensitivity of sound. You can easily
set your Christmas Music on and watch your Christmas tree sync to the music or
set it to automatic blinking modes.
Slightly different from the Music syncing Christmas Lights, you can connect up to
48 AC devices by hacking it even further, but we will leave that to you.

Check out the DIY on our wiki for better viewing.

We caught Philip Torrone from Make on his new video review of open-source products.

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Here’s a cool DIY on making your own Christmas lights that will sync to your music.
You just need a SSR and somehow hook it up to your audio amp and you are done!
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Here’s a cool technology developed by Xerox. If you have any classified information, you can
probably by benefit from this technology. There is also a way to decipher XEROX codes which are
hidden in your XEROX prints. Another good point is that the paper can be used over once print
has been erased. This will save some trees and ultimately the earth that we live on.
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I’ve always read books about how to lucid dream. Actually the best instruction I’ve found was the
advice to watch your hand before you goto sleep and tell yourself, “am i dreaming?”. The book I
read suggests that if I get in the habit of doing this, I will eventually ask myself that while I am
dreaming. Also you can self-hypnotize yourself to wake when you are dreaming…

This lucid dreaming mod seems like the one I read in the book. I heard Stanford was messing with
some REM sleep for lucid dreaming, well maybe I can make one for myself now! Yipee!

The next night was the night before I published this creation - and I had no less than three lucid dreams that night! Talk about successful. The whole story was that around 3 AM (after about 4 hours of sleep) the lights woke me up very softly (this was due to a calculation error in the 5-hour wait code; it was actually waiting something like 2 hours). I went to the bathroom and tried to go back to sleep with the lights teasing my eyes every five minutes - doing a reality test every time, because I was not sure whether I was still really awake.

Here’s a site that kinda explains what I read…

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