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24 alternatives to Christmasvillage.io

ChristmasVillage.io is controlled via a Raspberry Pi, Python, and electrical relays. We hope you enjoy watching and controlling our christmas village and train. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Christmasvillage.io launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1WC

    Weekend Project: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

    2013 · gnewt.at · its alternatives →

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    Using the Raspberry Pi to water plants automatically

    2017 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →

  3. 3PA
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    Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself: libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source.…

    2025 · walmart.com · its alternatives →

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    Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.

    2020 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →

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    Building a Bus Clock for my House using a Raspberry PI and Python. I won't miss the bus ever again!

    2022 · purplehoisin.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate holiday photos of you and your loved ones

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A few months ago, I was inspired by this post on Reddit, titled: Food items should have QR codes that instruct the microwave exactly what to do. Like high for 2 minutes, let stand 1 minute, medium 1 minutes.. I thought this was a pretty cool idea, and that it

    2013 · madebynathan.com · its alternatives →

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    A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - alexellis/growlab

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Santa▲158

    Free personalized videos from Santa

    2024 · creatorkit.com · its alternatives →

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    Chat with Santa in real time, virtually

    2021 · rapport.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Create your realistic Santa pictures this Christmas

    2022 · dripme.page.link · its alternatives →

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    I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…

    2012 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →

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    Make your home smart with Raspberry Pi

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…

    2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →

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    The digital advent calendar

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Virtual holiday party for remote founders, makers & leaders

    2019 · cowop.org · its alternatives →

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    Festive game to improve your SEO whilst having fun!

    2017 · semrush.com · its alternatives →

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    An experimental mini game with HTML, CSS, SVG and JS

    2017 · silocreativo.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24BA

    Hello Hacker News, My co-founder and I have spent the better part of years developing a completely hackable Home Automation toolset that runs on a Raspberry Pi, or any machine running Linux. With just a Raspberry Pi and a $45 Z-Wave dongle (https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/...), you can run a complete home automation system! Our hub will support any Z-Wave or Z-Wave plus device. We are cloud hosted service that doesn't require you to purchase any proprietary hardware. Our hub software runs on NodeJS and is completely open source. We encourage…

    2018 · its alternatives →

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