XmasPiLights from Reading College

Over in Reading, there’s a rather special Christmas tree. Reading College holds a week called “Go Further” every year, where students are encouraged to go beyond their curriculum to create ambitious projects. This year’s students decided to make a Christmas techno-tree from steel they milled themselves, a 3D-printed star they designed themselves, and string after string of LEDs, all hooked up to social media so people around the world could activate the star at the top. Here’s a time-lapse of the tree’s creation: And here’s the tree being built and tested. You can see a live stream of the tree at xmaspilights.com – and most importantly, you can make the 3D-printed star at the top twinkle by using the hashtag #XmasPiLights on Twitter, Instagram or Google+. Thanks to our friends at Energenie for sponsoring this project. We’re off to Twitter to make some stars twinkle.

URL: http://www.raspberrypi.org/xmaspilights-from-reading-college/