Kip Kay sent me. Nice work! If I may suggest, you might want to re-shoot the video, but when you do, focus on the tree under normal lighting conditions and then disable the auto focus.
Did you have to connect it to your laptop to run or you just connect the board to a power supply and left it stand alone while running it. I try to find a way to run it without connecting the arduino to my laptop.
Trying something similar to this to control Christmas lights this year. Using some relays to switch standard line voltage using the Arduino to control each relay. Only concern would be that the clicking noise of each relay would drive my family nuts. Hopefully the music would drowned that out!
Nice!! Now with solid state relays, do they act more in the lines of how a Transistor works, which also means that you can fade each signal? Or am I just completly thinking this wrong?
Brilliant work! Would you mind sharing how you went about this? I'm just beginning with my first Arduino and what you've done is similar to my target goal. Cheers
I might have done it the hard way, but I was just learning as I did this. I downloaded software called vixen, which allowed me to slow the music down to tenths of a second. Some people use this software to control the outputs, but I manually just listened to it and timed it out in my arduino code. For example, if the beat was 0.2 seconds apart, I would just toggle the lights on, delay 200 ms then change the lights again. There are packages and stuff out there where you can just set up channels (such as in Vixen) and that is what drives the output, but I went the old fashioned rout and manually timed it out. Good learning experience though. I couldn't do what I did on a larger scale though.
