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Woot-Off Lights Schematic and Hardware

Here’s some details about the hardware setup for the woot-off lights. It’s exactly as I described in the first post – this just includes the schematic and goes a little more in depth. Let’s take it from left to right. USB input to the Arduino to send serial data. The current from the USB port [...]

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 [...]