How a Controls Engineer Does Christmas Lights
Written By: Tim Maynard
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
So there I was three Christmases ago opening a present from my mother-in-law, and to my surprise, she bought me a Mr. Christmas’s, “The Lights and Sounds of Christmas.” I’ve always put up a lot of lights for Christmas, so the gift made sense, but basically, it’s a box that syncs music to Christmas lights.
That first year I synced some of my Christmas lights to music but found the Mr. Christmas box to be a bit limited since there were only six outputs. So, as a typical controls engineer, I knew I could do this better! Why not treat it as a machine…
