Riversides and stringlights... #FeelingPoeticLookingOutOntoTheWater #Stringlights #Riverside
#FullMoon
#StringLights
#BeadArt
#SilentSunday
This is the view from my back door. The red birds are hand beaded
The cafe string lights can transform a tent into a beautiful welcoming space with just the right amount of warmth and elegance. #tents #stringlights #weddings #tentrentals #partytents #2025weddings #outdoorevents #weddingtents #partyrentals
2024 366 photochallenge 09/13
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2024 366 photochallenge 03/31
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Get the #PhilipsHue Festavia #stringlights at a bargain price on Amazon. With 65 feet of smart, app-controlled lighting, these lights are perfect for any occasion.
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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.
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
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0xVnPGLO1o/
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