Hey all,
for all of you techies who have started projects either with the raspberry pi or arduino how far can you take them ?? How about letting people control all of your Christmas lights via the internet !
If you want to know how this works, there is a dedicated server handling the front end, there is a couple others that work as load balancing. There is a ubuntu server at my house that takes the commands via users and then redirects them to the arduinos that control relay boards that then control the lights. The webcams are all raspbery pi B 256mb with camera moduals attached running raspbian headless that capture the images and then redirect them to the web-server for all you to see.
http://mathlin.co.uk/christmas/web-cams/
Merry Christmas,
Luc