I made these, and finished them for the Epilog competition Instructables are running. They’re controlled by an arduino mini reading a rotary potentiometer to determine how many of them to switch on:

I’m still very much a newbie with both a soldering iron and a compiler, but I’m finding both more comprehensible than I expected. How to build + code are over at Instructables. The open source code and hardware along with many recycled components make this feel super-ethical compared to most projects, like it should induce some kind of amplified eco-smugness (but it doesn’t because there’s a fair bit of PVC in it).

If you really like these, there’s a wallpaper size photo over at Flickr too:

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