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In this (perhaps non practical) project I convert a 120 volt mains alarm clock to solar power.

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Solar Christmas Lights will save you a large sum of money on your powerelectric bill at a time of year when money can be in short supply.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

Using an Arduino Uno to control my 8 strings of Christmas lights. I wrote the code from scratch myself. I used 8 solid state relays to switch the AC power to the strings. They are not LED Christmas lights, they’re normal incandescent mini bulbs. I used a 74hc595 shift register to run the 7 segment LED display which shows the current mode, but the light relays are run directly off the mainboard without a shift register. I added the binary mode for an extra geeky touch. More details on my website:
http://www.neonsquirt.com/arduinoxmas/

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Solar Christmas Lights might save you a great deal of cash on your utility bill during a time of year when cash can be tight.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

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Solar Christmas Lights will save you allot of money on your utility bill during a time of the year when cash can be in short supply.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

Hi andrew cauthen here. This is my hahahouse where i live. It’s “paid” for. I made it in about a month-ish. I love it. I don’t need more space. If i want more I go outside. It’s insulated. Super cheap to heat/ cool (windows open in the shade for summer, passive solar heat sun for winter). It has a loft and lots of windows. I especially like the skylights (thanks kramer!). i have solar powered christmas lights that come on at night automatically. I salvaged most of the materials from trash at construction sites or wood I found around. I built this in an alley behind my friends house 98% by myself. I used mostly just a rechargeable drill/ circle saw. borrowed power to use them. I’m trying to graduate to just sleeping outside but this is good for now.

thanks to habitat for humanity “restore” for all the bargains and lowes/ home depot for helping me with the rest. I spent a little under $3000 I think. If I built another one it would be smaller, no loft, less well built (i work too hard, not good, this thing is a beast!). Srsly this thing could roll over many times n still be good. all screws. uhm well some of it was nail gun. super cross braced with metal. 19/32 plywood on outside under metal. tar papered and tyvek’d. corrugated metal w 100 year lifetime. screws siliconed. window bases are recycled signs, aluminum, and sloped. 13feet tall 6feet wide 10feet long. got the trailer for $850.

i live behind my friends house. He asked me. Everyone yelled at me. Everyone hated it just like everything i’ve done my whole life. But as i’ve seen with everything else i do, Im just way ahead of my time. We are living in the dark ages so hey what can u do? i do my best with what I’ve got.

Thanks to my grandma for dying so i’d have a reason to do this since i really enjoyed coming back to you. thanks to my girlfriend for leaving me so i’d have a good reason. uhmm, thanks to the current death culture for sucking so hard and not doing any of the work so I’d have no escape into vices and would just do it myself. thanks to the universe for giving me a place to put this monster. the only way i get money is selling my food stamps to my mom (about $200 a month). I don’t “work” anymore cause I stopped trying to conform, since i wasn’t able to. I give everything away for free that i do/ volunteer cause i feel it’s the most productive. even tho everyone else want’s “$” or sufferage. I feel everyone is already good enough just being alive. I also feel that if more people get into quality of life for all, especially themselves, they will venture down this same road of getting out of self destructive death culture. therefore i am here showing you one avenue, tho it’s not an easy one! we have to do the work and there is no way out of that! the only way to make it easy for you is to know that it is all perfect and to trust and enjoy urself as much as u can remember. also to spend as much quality silent alone time with yourself as possible getting “stoked”.
enthusiasm, joy, honesty, awareness, integrity.

I want to thank also Jay Shafer at Tumbleweed House Company for all the pretty pictures. And tom for telling me about these tiny play houses that rule. thanks crimethinc and skateboarding and bikes and the color black for not showing the dirt and looking awesum and food stamps and waterproof bike bags and apple computers (even tho i can’t wait to turn u into service for all instead of just the “rich”, at least ur doing it the best u can for now).

thanks mom and george for being wage slave terrorists so as to give me the time to develop myself. thanks all the artists and musicians in the world for accepting and dealing with the worlds insanity.. showing them a brighter way to the awesum. thanks to the ego and terrorist dorks for putting the heat on, you posers, sucking satans cock. thanks to all the sell outs (probably you) for ruining everything and living off everyone else so that i could do it all for you. i hate you and i love you. more than that i just want to be done cause i’m sick of explaining myself to you dorks. “forgive them for they know not what they do”. i can’t wait for the drugs to stop working for us all. thank you. from one of the most amazing cosmic coffers that you have ever met. me now go do the work u dirty sluts.

‪http://takepillsdie.blogspot.com‬
‪http://archive.org/details/takepillsdie‬

thanks pro awesum people doing the work, following ur joy, doing what you love and nothing else, sharing everything cause you love everyone and ur intentions are planet awesum. thanks bashar. can’t wait to see more of you in the soon now!!! yeah!!!

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Solar Christmas Lights will save you a great deal of money on your utility bill during a time of year when money can be tight.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

Small microprocessor system working as 16-bit LED controller. Toy designed to ‘computerize’ my Christmas Tree but may be used in many other ways: as programmable 16-bit pattern generator, sequencer and so on.

Check out http://elportal.pl/tasza/lxt page for technical details and software download (for MCU / PC, source and binary versions)

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Solar Christmas Lights might save you allot of money on your powerelectric bill during a time of year when cash can be tight.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

http://www.solar-powered-lights.net – There is now a complete step-by-step video guide that can show you how to reduce your power bill by making your own solar panels. Now you can build a single panel or a complete array of panels to power your home for a fraction of retail cost.

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Solar Christmas Lights could save you a great deal of cash on your utility bill at a time of year when cash can be in short supply.

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Easy install complete LED kit with 3 white LED light strips to accent everything in your home: under furniture, behind TV’s to reduce eye strain, under or behind liquor bottles, undercabinet lighti…
Easy install complete LED kit with 3 white LED light strips to accent everything in your home: under furniture, behind TV’s to reduce eye strain, under or behind liquor bottles, undercabinet lighting, closet lighting, bathroom lighting, and more! This video shows just how easy it really is to use the kit. Cool to the touch and available in warm white or cool white.

This kit provides the urban accent lighting you need to add value to your home.
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Solar Christmas Lights can save you a considerable amount of cash on your powerelectric bill at a time of year when money can be in short supply.

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High Quality Available: Creating lights from start to finish

Resistors –
Radio Shack (USA)

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062340&cp=&sr=1&kw=220+ohm&origkw=220+ohm&parentPage=search

The Source by Circuit City (Canada)

http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Product.aspx?language=en-CA&catalog=Online&category=Resistors&product=2719002

LEDs

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1106

All other items can be purchased from an electronic, component, hardware, or hobby store

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Solar Christmas Lights might save you a considerable amount of cash on your utility bill at a time of year when cash can be tight.

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I read about a lovely project today, where a team of Japanese guys and girls created some lovely solarpowered light. When hung in trees, these lights only came on if there was wind (and dark I suppose).
The inspiration:

http://www.livingworld.net/works/wind-lit-solar/lang-pref/en/

Some specs, in Japanese http://www.livingworld.net/essays/windlit2001-2/lang-pref/ja/

I didn’t have what I needed to make a solar powered version, but I did make one powered by a button cell battery.

My version is very bare bones and not as techy and beautiful as the “original”, but it works, and is hanging in my garden right now, blinking away happily.

Check out pictures and some instructions on how to make your own on Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/mskogly/sets/72157612488495230/

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Solar Christmas Lights could save you a considerable amount of money on your utility bill at a time of the year when cash can be tight.

Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.

This video was originally going to be just a routine video showing this year’s Christmas lights I had put up, but somehow it turned into a pro-LED propaganda video. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! LED’s are amazing little bits of plastic and semiconductor, and now they’re making our holidays even brighter and more colorful. Be it an amateur display (Like ours) or a professional holiday light show, LEDs are definitely worth looking into.

Admittedly, if you’re not really into LED technology, then you might find this video boring.

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Solar Christmas Lights could save you a large sum of cash on your utility bill during a time of year when cash can be in short supply.