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Relaybox

I started to write (one sentence) on a blog post about my light controls, but I decided that I needed to get back around to that after I wrote about my relaybox. This has been built since earlier in the summer, and I've been meaning to blog on it for

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Setting my lights up as a service...

In putting together my new light setup, I decided it was time to make my lights a service. Since I lost my pi's configuration a few weeks ago (The FS on the SD card went bad, so I decided it was time to switch to Arch Linux on the Pi.

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Lights, v2.0 (Coming soon!)

I discovered Bottle for Python, and it inspired me to work on my lights some more... I never really was happy witht the web interface before. It felt slow, it looked pretty bland, and while it worked, I wasn't happy. Bottle should (hopefully) be changing that. But, before I got

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More lights

Hello few-and-far-between readers. I have a new update about my lights. I have moved out of campus housing this fall, and have a bit more space for nice things such as lights. As of right now, I have 3 strings of lights: Above my window Behind my desk, pointed at

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Lights fading!

I wish I had a video to show you how awesome this is. I just checked it in. My lights can now fade between colors. The code is still in a partially hideous state, but It works! After a while of procrastinating, I finally decided to just do it. I

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Lights, pretty and colorful!

I've come a long way with my lights since my last post. First thing I did was to say "Screw it" and rip open the other light control box I had - which yielded very nice results. There were some surface mount resistors between the IC and the

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Arduino Control of PWM lights (Or at least a start...)

Ever since I got my first strip of RGB LED lights, I've loved them quite a bit. The only issue is the pesky controller that came with them. I have been meaning to do something about this for a while, so I asked for (and received) an Arduino for Christmas.