#stringlights

2025-07-05
The sky bled light. The colors swayed. And I forgot everything but the warmth between my ribs.

#stringlights #summervibes
2025-05-02
View through a part of a window reveals the other side of a river with a landing, trees and stting lights, some big buildings are barely visible against the night sky.
66gardeners66gardeners
2025-01-12





This is the view from my back door. The red birds are hand beaded

Night time view of a full moon overlooking a garden
Tents For Renttentsforrent
2024-11-08

The cafe string lights can transform a tent into a beautiful welcoming space with just the right amount of warmth and elegance.

2024-10-04
Got the orange lights out for the season. The pumpkin lights are something of a Halloween tradition in my family, and the orange lights just look nice. I have more strings that need varying amounts of troubleshooting before they can go up, but I have a few more bushes I could illuminate.

I usually have some lights out here year round, just because I'm at a corner and it gets dark. But the orange lights look great this time of year.

#fall #lights #StringLights #Halloween #decorations
Orange plastic jack-o-lanterns stuck on to light bulbs on strings, strung in a tree. It is dusk, and they are lit up.A picture of a tree against a dusk sky, with strings of lights. On each light is a plastic jack-o-lantern pumpkin, and all are lit up.Two bushes with orange LED lights strung in them and lit, against a dusk sky.A close-up of orange LEDs on strings, within a bush. They are lit up and glowing brightly.
GadgetBondgadgetbond
2024-03-30

Get the Festavia at a bargain price on Amazon. With 65 feet of smart, app-controlled lighting, these lights are perfect for any occasion.
gadgetbond.com/philips-hue-fes

JL Johnson :veri_mast:User47@vmst.io
2024-03-17

Dear internet: For my ambitious weekend project I needed to level my giant, HEAVY 2x6 planters, secure the light posts in the middle, dig up the ton of dirt to fill them, string the guy wire, and hang 100 ft of string lights.

Somehow I did it all today. 🤯 I am BEAT. But accomplished.

Later this season once the dirt settles I’ll refill and plant with #virginiacreeper and #passionflower.

#diy #stringlights #gardening #zone6b #PlantNative

String lights give off a warm glow against a post-sunset dark blue sky.Planter made from four treated 2x6x8. Filled 2/3 with garbage dirt and topped with compost topsoil mix.
Howard Smith MD, AMDrhowardsmith@masto.nyc
2023-12-12

The CPSC and DM Merchandising are recalling Bunkhouse and Lotsa LITES! Connectable Mini String Lights since they overheat when plugged directly into a plug creating burn and fire hazards. #bunkhouse #lotsalites #stringlights #overheating #burns #fires #recall
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Astronomic Patio Light Timer

Not satisfied with the handheld remote control for his outdoor patio lights, [timabram] decided to build an automatic timer using an ESP8266. He's using a set of string lights from Costco, but as you dig into his project you'll see the method he uses can be applied to almost any set of lights that have a remote.

He does this by connecting GPIO pins from the ESP8266 GPIO into the remote control in order to simulate a user pressing the button. Both boards are packaged together in a 3D-printed enclosure that utilizes the front portion of the remote control, so that manual operation is still possible.

His firmware gets the date and time from an NTP server, and then makes an API call to an online service that returns the local sunrise and sunset times for a specific location. He tries to minimize the power consumption by experimenting with different intervals to wakeup from deep sleep and ping the time server. But in the end, he realizes the RF remote control carries quite some distance, and installed the unit inside a closet where it could be powered by adaptors connected to the mains.

We wondered how the remote control knows if the lights are on or off, and [timabram] notes this is a shortcoming which could be addressed in a future version. If you've ever seen a mechanical version of an astronomic timer switch, packed full of gears and dials and setting pins, you can really appreciate a no-moving-parts solutions like this project. If you want to make one that doesn't use the internet, check out this Arduino-based solution that we wrote about back in 2013.

#homehacks #astronomic #patiolights #remotecontrol #stringlights #sunsettimer

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