Christmas LED Light Show

I hate to send you to another blog site, as CR4 is a damn good one, but in this case I am compelled to provide a few links. For starters a good place for information is http://computerchristmas.com/ there you will find many things to help you. Some software and hardware that may also be of interest to you since its free is http://www.vixenlights.com/ , http://www.electro-zone.co.uk/icicle/index.php and http://www.rgbled.org/RGBLED/index.html as well as a section from my own blog here on CR4 which I also have a driver for that works with the vixen software above.

The real question is how much do you want to make yourself vs buy, and how much do you want to spend.

not bad. in fact. there are lots of application software for it as well as fountain and lighting display.

there are also lots of such products in china. and export to usa and europe

cnpower - please elaborate. any links to suppliers? I'm interested

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Hi Daffy

Go to Picaxe.com (rev ed ) and order a picaxe controller board 28x or 18x with the controller chip and driver chip there is a US supplier . Each can control 8 outputs so at 6V thats 8 strings of leds with appropriate resistors if needed (depends on colour and number). Dowload the free software and start programming. Its easy I just bought a string of 20 leds including 5 blue from the pound shop and cut them up to make a flashing star with complex sequence. Its fun too.

He want not low voltage like 6v sets, but higher up to 220v or110v in usa to drive a series bulbs.

Hello daffy, if you are into scratch building from bare parts dig around on this site. A lot of amateur stuff but some very good info also. http://www.instructables.com/id/Animated_Christmas_LED_Snowflake_Window_Decoration/

Just search LEDs and much more is available.

Brad