It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas… Well not really, unless you are at Costco.
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Category: Christmas Lights
Spring Teardown
This year was an particularly long and cold winter with lots of snow. So much so we had nearly six consecutive month of evening temperatures below freezing. This created challenges from when I started putting up my lights to when I took them down. Continue reading “Spring Teardown”
Troubleshooting RGB Strings and Other Things
One thing I noticed after getting my show live was one of my RGB strings was not behaving as expected. This is one of those things that no one else would probably notice because it happens so fast, but to me it was like not having the string on at all. Continue reading “Troubleshooting RGB Strings and Other Things”
Getting to live
After the final push there wasn’t much left to do to get the show live for our annual light up party. I’d actually taken Friday afternoon off work to finish any last pieces and work out any bugs but really didn’t need it. Continue reading “Getting to live”
A Rare Opportunity
day I had a rare alignment of some great weather and a 1/2 day with a clear calendar. Since I will be out of town most of next week I decided to take the afternoon off work and crank through some of my outstanding build tasks. Continue reading “A Rare Opportunity”
Milk Crates and Floodlights
I’d purchased two Light-O-Rama 50W RGB floodlights for my display this year. These things are beasts. Continue reading “Milk Crates and Floodlights”
Trees, Trees, & More Trees
This weekend was a weekend of trees. My goal was to decorate the deciduous tree in my front yard, assemble my mini trees and pixel tree.
Big Boy Toys
Today was a rare day where I had a stat holiday but the kids were in school. I decided to take full advantage and get all the lights that were not reachable by ladder on the house.
RGB Light Test
Well it’s been a busy weekend outside. I was well behind on my build schedule with only the white lights around my garage door and upper roof and icicles on the upper roof complete. Continue reading “RGB Light Test”
Back to Sequencing
After spending a bit of time messing with my new hardware and starting to spend the weekends putting up lights, I need to get back to converting my sequences to my new layout.
Chasin' Rudolph 