Arduino-Powered Holiday Lights
Wanting to take full control of his Christmas tree, Brian from Hackszine used the open-source Arduino microcontroller to drive a homemade grid array of 64 LEDs. Pretty nice. Again, a nice project that can be decontextualized, rehashed and reinterpreted in the true hacker/xmas spirit.

by Robert
"The distance is very far. I would have no doubt that you could control it from 100ft -200ft or more. ..."