Super Spectacular Christmas Door Wreath

Turn That Door Decor into a Eye Catching Holiday Show!

The common Christmas wreath for your front door adds a bit of holiday cheer to visiting family, neighbors, friends, or even yourself. You come up to your front door and see the wreath, and you are just filled with holiday spirit! It helps to wash away your work day and prepare you for the holiday spirit that awaits you inside.

But it is what it is. Albeit a nice arrangement, it just sits there. Not offering any mood changing experiences at all outside of what it stands for. You might be an interior decorator, specializing in holiday decor, so you might admire the placement of the pine cones, or the other Fall trim. But if not, you see just another wreath.

OR!

You could spice it up a bit, kick it up a notch mind you. Give it some interactive charm and pizzazz! Something that blows their shoes AND socks off before they walk in! Now you wouldn't even have to ask your guests to remove their shoes before walking in. They will be off and hanging in the front lawn's tree!

OK, maybe their footwear will not rocket off their feet at the site of this new creation, but they will be mesmerized to a point where they CAN wait for you to answer the door.

How?

We decorate it. With LIGHTS! Oh yeah! Not just some boring old string of incandescence, but bright and colorful LED lights! And not some stationary color or brightness, we animate it! After all, adding static lights is just more trim for an non-animated decoration.

But we will not stop there. We will also add a screen in that unexplored hole in the middle. Donuts have holes, reminding you that you paid for that hole that offers you nothing to enjoy. My favorite donuts have always been the fruit filled solid pucks of a donut. You get what you pay for!!

Anyway, this screen will of course show something. I can't think of anything better than the choice clippings of holiday fantastic works like It's a Wonderful Life! or, The Bishop's Wife. Perhaps A Christmas Story and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! And why not make the light show sync with the audio of these clips? SURE!

But what we have now is a stage show of a wreath. How the heck are we going to pull all this off?? EASY! We throw microcontrollers at it!

And that is what this blog will be about. My quest to enhance an already beautiful wreath with the most embedded holiday cheer my mind can offer!

Stay tuned! It will be an awesome ride!

More when I discover, build, and code it. =)



Parts / Modules I Will Use and Exploit