Answer: Binary Secret #257

The secret message is:

KITTEN

Row by row

Row	Bulbs	Add the ‘on’ numbers	Character
1	01001011	64 + 8 + 2 + 1 = 75	K
2	01001001	64 + 8 + 1 = 73	I
3	01010100	64 + 16 + 4 = 84	T
4	01010100	64 + 16 + 4 = 84	T
5	01000101	64 + 4 + 1 = 69	E
6	01001110	64 + 8 + 4 + 2 = 78	N

Crack it with Python

Python can do the adding for you. int(code, 2) reads a string of 1s and 0s as a binary number. Then chr() turns the number into its character.

secret = [
    "01001011",
    "01001001",
    "01010100",
    "01010100",
    "01000101",
    "01001110",
]
message = ""
for code in secret:
    number = int(code, 2)
    message = message + chr(number)
print(message)

When you run it, it prints:

KITTEN