You will need a firm grasp on electronics circuity basic programming and general smarts about electrical safety.
Build your own christmas light display.
Diy christmas lights set to music choreographed house lights.
The first step in building your own customized light line is choosing the cord you re going to use.
Building the circuit for our christmas light show with arduino set up the circuit as shown in the diagram and connect an external relay power source.
How to build leaping light arches for your christmas displaythis video for diy christmas lights shows you step by step details of how be built our leaping li.
It s called empty socket because you purchase the bulbs separately and screw them into the fittings molded into the line.
Since it is not recommended to draw the power needed for working on relays from the arduino board.
Diy christmas lights set to music choreographed house lights this is not a beginner diy.
Plug in the main power supply to your ac outlet.
The cord used for building custom lines is called an empty socket light line.
As you see in the picture this is my finishing design.
Put up your house christmas lights as you usually would but plug all the cords into your controller instead of an electrical outlet.