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http://interestingengineering.com/insane-christmas-lights-youll-see-season/ Collection of huge light displays. →

https://opensource.com/life/15/2/music-light-show-with-raspberry-pi?sc_cid=701600000011jJaAAI Some ideas and instructions for making your own light show. →

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/john-knoll-rogue-one-star-wars/ Arduino controls the lights in big budget movie props.  →

Halloween is coming, so here are some interesting links to decoration hardware hacks. Gravesend Inn is an attraction that mainly instead of scaring the audience, it’s meant to inspire high school students to go to college and study technology. CNN has made video report The haunted hotel that breeds engineers. Control Geek blog has lots →

https://blog.hackster.io/project-a-moving-image-onto-a-deforming-surface-5d7308a81624#.fudc9x3ej There is a cool demonstration video on this article. →

8-bit Video Wall Made From 160 Gaming Keyboards LinusTechTips did a video on it where they mentioned that each keyboard was hooked up to a network and they each had there own I.P. Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg23s9FBc9s   →

I have several times pointed to interesting material that is posted to Control Geek blog. Here is another good time to point you there. My Show Networks talk from The Eleventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) article tells that John Huntington’s Show Networks talk from The Eleventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is now here on →

I wrote a posting on TV broadcasting in Rio Olympics. This posting continues the same theme giving more technical details and links to where to see what the TV broadcasting technology looks at 2016 Summer Olympics. This blog article is a ombination of information from very many articles that tell on TV broadcasting at Rio →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-turn-music-into-colors-with-a-wifi-bridge?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Interesting application for ESP8266 and WS2812 LEDs. Use ADC to listen sound from electret mic and make that to control LED colors. →

Return of the floppies: The floppy drives are back with multiplied force. Floppy drives,hard disk and optical scanners make music. Cover of Imperial March by computer hardware orchestra. How does it work? The principle is simple. Every device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound.The sound generated by a motor depends on →