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Zedomax Christmas DIY - Voice Activated Christmas Lights!

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DIY Zedomax, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Garrett's DIYs, Hack, Microcontroller, Video by max on the November 30th, 2006 at 8:13 pm

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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.

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14 Comments »

2006-12-01 21:37:26

[...] Amazing collection of comptuerized Christmas Light displays syncing to music. I think these are scripted though and costs a fortune. But maybe someone can hack one out of our DIYs and some OP amps which could keep the cost down… Well, if we had the time, we’d do it ourselves…wait, maybe we can make it! Any ideas or links on how to accomplish this would be appreciated! [...]

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2006-12-08 02:33:24

[...] Well you can build some really cool voice-activated lights here if you want some extra effects for this holiday. (We will be updating the picture of our Christmas Tree by Monday…) [...]

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2006-12-11 23:00:57

[...] Here is a simple circuit to control 110VAC things such as Christmas Lights with low voltage audio. Be careful, high voltage AC can kill you. Zedomax has also made a cool voice activated Christmas light controller that is real cool! “The basic Idea was to have Christmas lights flash with the music. In my design I use an ordinary amplified computer speaker, a diode bridge, and a ‘CRYDOM’ SSR (Solid State Relay). In order to increase the time that the lights were on as well as protect the SSR I used a Diode Bridge to rectify the signal from the amplifier circuit.” [...]

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Comment by matthew
2006-12-15 21:16:18

how much would it cost to make and send me the computer/sound activated set?

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Comment by max
2006-12-15 22:09:41

Hi,
you can email garrett@zedomax.com. He might be able to make you one…

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2007-08-15 21:15:09

[...] not available yet… I bet Garrett from Comfile can hack one up real quick… He made that voice activated Christmas Tree, this doesn’t seem too different. It seems like the eyes and nose are random movements and [...]

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2007-08-21 07:15:47

[...] meaning “Christmas”, as the post says. These lights are so awesome for so many reasons, but mostly because you can play music (or speak) and the lights will synch up [...]

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Comment by girrrrrrr2
2007-08-23 16:14:16

to cool… you should have a filter for your personal favs and most viewed ones and one for the most commented ones….

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Comment by Izl Subscribed to comments via email
2007-08-29 12:11:38

nice! you can tell it when to come on lol would be a pain with animals in the house though… barking :S

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Comment by Fubar Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-17 00:42:18

Hey guys - love the light controllers you’ve designed! Any interest in doing one that uses LED’s (youu know, like the cheap LED X-mas light strings) and not only has voice activation, but also allows dimming ramp up / ramp down that can be controlled in software. That would be AWESOME!

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Comment by Fubar Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-17 00:44:32

Hey guys - love the light controller’s you’ve designed & posted in the DIY’s! Any chance you can do one with low voltage (DC) LED’s and not only voice activated but also adjustable dimming rampup/ramp down programmable in software? That would ROCK!

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Comment by max
2007-10-17 01:49:39

Oh yeah, that’s even easier!

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Comment by Joy Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-18 17:39:47

I would love to build my own, but I have never done anything like this. What about using a DJ light controller for christmas lights? They are sound activated, and have chasers. Can this be used in the same application?
Thanks
joy

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2008-02-23 17:39:29

[...] you want the non-adult version, you can check out our Christmas Voice Activated Party Lights too. (And yes, you have to use a Magnum for this one) This project shows you how to make a music light [...]

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