While looking for a way to make lights fade as part of our group project, I came across a couple of interesting links. The main link from this post takes you to a video that gives a quick but helpful introduction to programing chips. The example they show involves a special board called an ARDUINO. It is a very versitile and reprogramable base. I don’t know anything about programming so the link was helpful for me. They program the board to fade an LED in and out when a switch is pressed. I thought this might be helpful on some of the other projects too.

The second link http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/fading-led-lights-home-concepts-revisited/ purports to accomplish the same LED fading in a simpler way.