UATree
A few students at The University of Advancing Technology got into the Christmas hacking spirit this weekend and surprised the campus attendants on Monday morning with a TCP/IP enabled Christmas tree. The tree has been the centerpiece of holiday decorations at the university for the past few years, casting a static white glow across the commons late into the night. Static no more, the tree now hosts a web page from an embedded PINK Ethernet module. The page allows access to a Basic Stamp microcontroller preprogrammed with switching patterns for a set of solid state relays connected to the lights. The sectional nature of artificial trees made controlling the lights as simple as plugging in each level of the tree to a relay. Credit goes to these guys.
You can visit the UATree's embedded site at: uatree.0x58.com
(The site may be up and down, busy or flooded, and so on)
Visit our University's page at www.uat.edu
(Heavy on Flash)
You can visit the UATree's embedded site at: uatree.0x58.com
(The site may be up and down, busy or flooded, and so on)
Visit our University's page at www.uat.edu
(Heavy on Flash)
posted by The Crimpster at
11:42 AM
2 Comments:
How about an interesting twist (perhaps for next year)? Use colored light strands, and set the colored lights to blink according to certain tcp/ip or udp packets (say syn/ack) on certain branches of the network. Then you could say "everytime a light blinks, a connection is established" to paraphrase a quote from "It's a Wonderful Life".
By
Justin, at 5:41 PM
I love it. Just wish we had more time before finals. Sadly the tree came pre-wired and it looks best with just the white lights, not to mention somebody(no names) hates us hacking school stuff.
By
The Crimpster, at 10:47 PM
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