8 Channel PIC Micro-controller Embedded Christmas Light Controller (LED Polarity Control)
February 7th, 2011 by admin
Another post from Solar Christmas Lights.
Solar Christmas Lights will save you a great deal of cash on your utility bill during a time of year when cash can be tight.
This is an overview video of an embedded systems prototype I made to control 8 physical AC channels (or 16 channels when used with polarity sensitive LED strings). Uses a PIC 16C745 (older UV Erasable PIC) optocouplers, TIRAC, and an AC-to-DC power supply.
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Solar Christmas Lights will save you a great deal of cash on your utility bill during a time of year when cash can be tight.
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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:
Lynette Reports on her first product of the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010 Loacated in Las Vegas.
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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.
This PLC shift registers tutorial by http://www.bin95.com explains the common programmable logic control function called FIFO. This is just a small, low resolution sample from DVD 9 of the 10 DVD PLC Training Video Course Library. The actually DVDs have much better quality and details.
In this video i take a look at the new KAM LED Lights
High Quality Available: Creating lights from start to finish
Watch this video for a demonstration of “How To Make a Solar Charging Bag”. To complete the task, you will need:
Want to put some electronics into your terrain piece or diorama. LED lights are great, you can use tiny watch batteries, they are cheap,come in colours, and you can find them in all kinds of broken stuff.