[Robert] wanted more out of his GE Color Effects G-35 LED Christmas lights. He reverse engineered and then hacked the protocol the lights use to communicate so that he can control each bulb.

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At first glance, the lights look a lot like traditional Christmas tree lights, with each tiny LED light spaced about three inches ... each strand from just below the middle of the tree and moving up ...

Specifically, [Andy] has a long string of programmable RGB LED lights to wrap around a Christmas tree, but didn’t want to spend time manually mapping out each light’s location. So he used ...