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Serial Control of Woot-Off Lights Working

After a few hours of clumsy and inept coding, I managed to scrape together a basic windows console application to send data over serial. Right now it just asks you which COM port the Arduino is on (usually COM3), and then you hit enter to turn the lights on/off. All that’s actually happening is the [...]

Posted 18 May 2009 † brettinman § Woot-Off Lights Project ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Intelligent Control of Woot-Off Lights

Please see the WootOff Lights Project category for the most up-to-date posts about this project. Occasionally, Woot has extravaganzas where they post item after item in what is known as a woot-off. Little .gif lights spin round and round to alert visitors to this spectacle. Playing on this, Woot occasionally sells physical woot-off lights. They [...]

Posted 16 May 2009 † brettinman § Woot-Off Lights Project ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,