Christmas Village Light Display

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The Christmas Village Light Display project is an energy-efficient Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) light system made for Department 56 Christmas Village Houses. The project uses the nRF52840 SoC to control up to 30 LED light fixtures and audio playback. The project was proposed by Calvin Hughes and built by Jesus Aguilar, Michael Barnes, and Zachary Watkins. Aguilar and Watkins served as hardware leads, and Barnes served as software lead for this project. Some significant features of the Christmas Village Light Display project include: - Apache MyNewt's NimBLE stack supporting up to 30 concurrent Bluetooth peripheral connections. - Energy-efficient RGBW LED light fixtures capable of lasting 1 month on 2x AA batteries - Play 8-bit audio 48kHz .WAV files from microSD - AUX out for speaker or headphone use If this project were to continued to be worked on, here are some improvements to be made: - Adding support for LCD to show the connection status of light fixtures - Revising the central box lid to add space for the potentiometer

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Artifacts

Name Description
Project Closeout Document detailing a extensive overview of the project.   Download
Executive Summary Document with a brief overview of the project.   Download
Project Summary Video 5 minute video where Aguilar, Barnes, and Watkins describe the project.   Link
Artifact Folder Google Drive folder with all the above artifacts and extras.   Link