With the holidays over, many of us are braving the elements to take down all those holiday lights ... strings that dim. But the twinkle effect until recently has been hard to describe. Typical ...

In this setup, if one bulb burns out in the strand, the current won't flow through the entire circuit, which means the entire string of Christmas lights will go out. Some of these could be ...

There are few things more frustrating than plugging in that old string of Christmas lights ... it will NOT work with light sets that have a programming box for multiple blinking options," read ...

Take some inspiration from [Tim] who just finished prototyping a wireless MIDI controller for his strings of Christmas lights. You can just see the four spools in the distance which are lighting ...