We are ready to go. Everything will start Thanksgiving night at 5:30pm. This year we are collecting donations for Infant Crisis Services of Oklahoma City. With an additional 10,000 lights from last year we are hoping for a great turn out.
After some minor issues and rerouting some channels we finally went live December 2nd.
Testing the stability of the arch.
I just finished the 3D star for the top of the megatree. It is made from metal tubing, rope lights and lots of zip ties. Each color is on its own channel. Each half is doubled over to leave the possibility of separating the star into two pieces so next year I can control each [...]
This year our light show will have about 15,000 lights divided into 160 channels for independent control of brightness. I will be running four Renard SS16 boards and four Renard SS24 boards. To communicate with the computer controller I will use a Ren-W, one inside and one outside to make the connection wireless. Included in the [...]
Sometimes you have to be creative getting supplies home from the store. I needed 20 foot pieces of PVC for the arches and the only way to transport them was to loop the PVC outside the vans driver side window and back in the passenger window. Our seven year old son said he was embarrassed as we drove away from the store!