Only true engineers have Christmas trees like this

♫ Have yourself an engineery little Christmas… ♫

Although some Makers enjoy dressing their Christmas trees with beeps and blinks, others go the extra mile to deck theirs out with Arduino-based controls and wireless connectivity. Well, the Atmel applications team in Norway decided to take it to an entirely whole new level last year. Rather than merely embellish the decorative piece with traditional ornaments, lights and ribbon, the Trondheim engineers built a tree made of actual microcontrollers. And that’s not all, it’s powered by a pair of Atmel | SMART SAM D21 Xplained Pro eval kits. For an extra “tree-t,” the group even added a plexi LED star on top!

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Brian Dead Rift Webb December 12, 2014 at 12:09 pm

Reblogged this on Brian By Experience and commented:
I wonder if I have enough misc parts to make one of these.

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xtc December 13, 2014 at 5:33 am

Hanging a few Scrap Wafer on a real Xmas Tree just doesn’t compare.

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