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Work · September 15, 2013

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

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

Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi launched on September 15, 2013 with 51 votes, #24 of 422 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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This is a weekend project that demonstrates how to control GE Color Effects Christmas lights over the internet using Node.js, a Raspberry Pi, and an Arduino. The Raspberry Pi runs nginx and a Node.js application to serve a web interface, while the Arduino manages communication with the lights' data line. The setup allows users to control their decorative lights remotely through a simple web-based frontend. This project is aimed at hobbyists and developers interested in learning Node.js and IoT integration.

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This is my Node.js “hello world.” It’s a weekend project that allows you to control GE Color Effects lights over the internet through the use of a Raspberry Pi (running nginx and a Node.js application) connected to an Arduino. Like I say in the video, I think it may be possible to control the data line of these lights directly from the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins, but I already wrote an Arduino library to handle that and it works nicely. The setup is fairly simple. The Raspberry Pi runs a frontend with my webserver of choice, nginx. It serves up a static page on / and proxies to my Node.js application on /api. Post data sent to /api is decoded by the Node application…from gnewt.at

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