Now that I had all my hardware finalized I just had to decide the kind of design that I wanted to make out of the light string. I got inspiration from the system dynamics and control theory that I've been learning recently. I really like how the classic oscillatory system responses look so I figured I would make a graph of one for my design. The two pictures below are taken right from my notes from class and they show how the step response of a system can be tuned by changing certain parameters.