MEGA TREE game screen

Christmas may be over, however the holiday hacks keep rolling in, such as this incredible interactive Mega Tree game Display!

[Lior] likes setting up light shows every year (just inspect out last year’s incredible White Christmas screen with music!), however taking them down just… well… sucks! So this year he decided to make a completely controllable non-holiday specific light screen that he can reuse everything year long.

It features 12 x 5 meter long water resistant RGB LED strips secured firmly to the front of his house, making a trapezoidal 12 x 150 pixel display. It was originally managed with an Arduino however he discovered the USB connection was far as well sluggish for the high frame rates he was aiming for — so he’s utilizing a combination of a Raspberry Pi as well as a Teensy 2.0 instead.

Now, just making a programmable light show appropriate for all holidays is quite awesome we must admit, however as [Lior] puts it, a ordinary light show is “so last decade”. So he’s gone as well as made the whole thing smartphone interactive. Yep, you can really log in with your phone as well as play a silly game that includes dropping gifts on homes as well as snowmen. He’s likewise got a quite awesome Hanukkah screen that features a spinning dreidel! inspect out the full presentation video after the break.