Technically brilliant and completely ridiculous, this really is in the spirit of old-school hacking. My favourite bit was the author describing how the none of

Technically brilliant and completely ridiculous, this really is in the spirit of old-school hacking. My favourite bit was the author describing how the none of the lights have their brightness value set above 0xCC by the manufacturer, and while the lights accept brightness values up to 0xFF: "I don't recommend it unless you really know what you are doing. It was probably set to this for a reason" (as if any of this should be attempted unless you really know what you are doing!). I must confess I had never thought of controlling my christmas lights via webbrowser either. Fun stuff :)