The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

Sure, you could get a regular light fixture like a normal person… Or you could use close to a thousand RGB LEDs to light your room! That’s what [Dmitry] decided to do after trying to figure ...

Specifically, [Andy] has a long string of programmable RGB LED lights to wrap around a Christmas tree, but didn’t want to spend time manually mapping out each light’s location. So he used ...