Ok, which one of you guys did these Xmas decorations? (video)

[mr.Curmudgeon]

It's like someone went crazy with RandyT's LED board...


mrC

[missioncontrol]

that is wicked awesome, but glad I'n not his neigbor

[mccoy178]

My wife would kill me.  That would take one heck of a driver.  I love this video.  I showed it to my wife and told her to be happy I'm building arcades and not working around the house.

[walls83]

http://www.animatedlighting.com/products/christmaskit.asp

[walls83]

http://www.planetchristmas.com/BuildYourOwn.htm

just what this forum needs

[mccoy178]

Now why in the world would you show me that?  You trying to get me divorced?     That thing is freakin' sweet.  A little pricey, a little bright, but whose counting right?  I think it would be neat to do a toned down version of that.  Someone for me to dream about this month.......................

[Santoro]

If I had the money I'd do that, no matter how tacky. The geek factor is just too high to pass up.

[GGKoul]

It's like someone went crazy with RandyT's LED board...


mrC

WOW!! 

[RetroJames]

Am I the only one thinking that a system like this IN an arcade cabinet with lights placed strategically in the marquee(s), on or in the cp, buttons, leading edges of the cabinets etc and synched with the game sounds would be THE COOLEST THING EVER!!!!

(Disclaimer: WIll most likely cause seizures in 45-62% of those who attempt to play the game....)

[SeanCyrusTowel]

But that is the best part : 

[NY_in_TX]

didn't some college kids use christmas lights and something like this to make the world'd largest game of tetris?

now someone has to wire up some lights, throw in a 4-way, and have Pacman with a santa hat eat some lights around the house!!

BTW, found that christmas light tetris thingee

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/718009.stm

[Pipercub]

Anyone have any photos, ideas, etc. for arcade centric holiday decorations? I was thinking Pacman and some ghosts would be easy(ish)?

[NY_in_TX]

Anyone have any photos, ideas, etc. for arcade centric holiday decorations? I was thinking Pacman and some ghosts would be easy(ish)?

PiperC!!!  wazzup man...still flying them sats? 

I finally got a home for that ms pac bezel...well worth the trip into the chilly winter in DC.


a guy here in texas has a pacman chasing ghosts all in santa hats.  they are yard art style wooden cutouts. 

Santa playin on a video game while Mrs Claus taps on her watch would be funny.

[missioncontrol]

update:

more info on lights

http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com/wizardsofwinter.php

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I didn't start it here, but this video is making the rounds all over my IT firm...I just got forwarded like two times today. Funny.



mrC

[mr.Curmudgeon]

update:

more info on lights

http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com/wizardsofwinter.php

Hey thanks for the link!  Light-O-Rama!! Yay!!



mrC

[missioncontrol]

your welcome I wanted to find the original thread to update.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Here's more potential backstory that's being forwarded around my office:

"Man decks house with synchronized lights December 6, 2005

MASON, Ohio --Some people at Christmas time are content to deck their homes with evergreen wreaths and holly, and maybe a few strings of lights made to look like glimmering icicles. Not Carson Williams.

Hundreds of cars drive by his house north of Cincinnati every night to see the display, which also is posted on several Internet sites.

"So far, everyone's been really courteous," Williams said on NBC's "Today" show Monday. "I told the neighbors, I told the sheriff, if they get any complaints, I'll shut it down, because the neighbors are more important to me than the Christmas lights. I do the Christmas lights for myself."

This is the third year Williams has assembled the display, which grows every year. He said he merely built on a suggestion from his wife, Sherry.

"She wanted some lights on the house, and I work with computers, so I said, 'There's got to be a way to control it with computers,'" Williams said.

He explored the Web and found examples of other synchronized displays. It takes him about an hour to program each minute of the display, which flashes to music by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

That doesn't mean neighbors have to listen to the sound track repeat itself all night.

"The sound, we actually broadcast on a low FM transmitter, so there's actually no sound in the neighborhood," said Williams, an electrical engineer with Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions.

A sign tells passers-by where to tune to listen, and Williams often stays outside for hours at a time chatting with visitors and directing traffic.

"We've had no problems," said Dave Hare, who lives across the street.

But the first year, it took some explaining.

"We called it the psycho house," said Hare's wife, Michelle. "It was just weird random flashes. Then, he told us about the radio station and it was great."

mrC

[markrvp]

I have downloaded all that and viewed the animation in Light-O-Rama sequence editor.  As best I can tell there are about 68 independent light channels.

I'm gonna guess it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $1200-$2000 to get all the electronics needed to interface your computer and lights to do this guys show.

Add in another few hundred for the lights . . .

Okay, time to adjust the family budget for next year.

[missioncontrol]

UPDATE***


Car crash, heavy traffic turn out Christmas light show:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/shared/oh/news/stories/1207deerfieldlightsweb.html

[Sasquatch!]

That link is dead.  Poop. 

[missioncontrol]

theres a link in the article I posted also theres a few other links floating around in here