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LED menorah kit

Windell at Evil Mad Scientist writes:

Hanukkah in particular has been a festival of lights for more than a dozen centuries longer than there have been lights on Christmas trees. History notwithstanding, Hanukkah still lags behind Christmas in the transition from traditional light sources like candles towards microcontroller driven arrays of LEDs. While that may be simply due to the relative flammability of dry pine trees versus that of metal menorahs, the irony is that Hanukkah-- unlike Christmas-- actually requires observers to light up specific lights in a specific order, which is exactly the sort of thing that you want a microcontroller for.

Get the instructions for your very own LED mini menorah - Link.

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Posted by: RobCruickshank on November 19, 2007 at 3:00 PM

See also, the USB menorah:
http://homepage.mac.com/jschrier/usb_menorah/

Posted by: ZiggyStardustMD on November 19, 2007 at 5:36 PM

Don't menorahs only have 7 lights?

Posted by: PattiS on November 19, 2007 at 6:30 PM

There are 2 types - one has 7, the other has 9. It's religion, it's *supposed* to be confusing.

Posted by: keshta on November 21, 2007 at 3:08 PM

thankssssssssssss man

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