Innovative Christmas Light Setups? 36
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Cliff
from the envy-of-the-neighborhood dept.
from the envy-of-the-neighborhood dept.
glitch0 asks: "Recently, I found some pretty neat Christmas decorations, at a neighbors house. He has a light setup that syncs up with MIDI files of Christmas music. The cool part is the way you hear the music - it's broadcast using a radio transmitter so you can tune your car radio as you're driving by and hear and see the show. Do any other Slashdot readers have cool homebrew light setups or ideas for over-the-top holiday decorations?"
recently I saw video online (Score:1)
Re:recently I saw video online (Score:4, Informative)
Includes an interview with the guy by a local radio station.
Re:recently I saw video online (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:recently I saw video online (Score:2)
live band (Score:1)
Re:live band (Score:1)
And I agree with you - it's very cool !
expertise (Score:2, Interesting)
it led me here http://computerchristmas.com/index.phtml?link=how_ to&HowToId=4&LowLimit=0 [computerchristmas.com]
a picture of it complete.
http://computerchristmas.com/tmp/myimages/4-comple te2.jpg [computerchristmas.com]
it'll controll 8 circuits per port hehehe
Simpler is better? (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem with more lights is that no one ever really takes the time to make lots of lights look good. No, icicle lights don't automatically make everything look better.
Re:Simpler is better? (Score:3, Insightful)
When I was growing up there was one street near where we lived where everyone was retired, and they competed every year for the most impressive christmas displays. They were always tasteful
Re:Simpler is better? (Score:2, Funny)
Countdown (Score:5, Funny)
5.. 4.. 3.. 2..
Re:Countdown (Score:2)
And for any Boston liberals, please replace "Christmas" with "Holiday" or "Kwanza" at your discretion.
Re:Countdown (Score:4, Funny)
How does that commercial go?? (Score:3, Funny)
Have a happy chrismkwazakah.
Re:How does that commercial go?? (Score:1)
This house (Score:1)
Try to top this... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://monke.undeadclan.com/Wizards_of_Winter_-_S
Neo-traditional (Score:2)
The pulse of ... slashdot? (Score:3, Insightful)
Google: christmas light display. [google.com] The first two links are directly relevant, and nearly all of them relate to exactly this question.
Yeah, sure, I imagine that there's a small percentage of slashdot users that really go all out on christmas displays, but what are you really after here? If you want to see cool ways to do displays, Slashdot isn't the best forum to ask, and if you are interested in the best display, why ask in a less effective forum?
Reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, "And you - well, you're just lucky [to get your story posted], aren't you?"
-Adam
Whatever you do (Score:3, Funny)
You don't see these in shops (Score:1)
A friend of mine built this [melkein.com] to get into christmas spirit.
A quick summary for those few who don't read Finnish: It's not a neon tube, but a electroluminescent element they use for pimping out computer cases. The picture was taken in a dark room with a Canon Ixus 500, 1 s exposure and ISO 50 sensitivity.
Re:You don't see these in shops (Score:1)
And to the parent's parent, this was a suprise to my bandwidth
No ligth at all (Score:1)
Close the ligth this Christmas to give some breath to you children.
Musical outdoor Christmas lights on a house! (Score:2)
sour grapes (Score:1)
{/Grump}
Why fiddle with exotic christmas light setups? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why fiddle with exotic christmas light setups? (Score:2)
Small Town Light Display (Score:1)
That power bill must be killer.... (Score:2)
do 200 RGB LEDs w/microcontrollers on tree count? (Score:2, Interesting)
individual (Score:2)