Скачать или смотреть Our 2023 Light Show - Behind the Scenes (pt. 1)

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We are a family from sunny Tucson, Arizona. We had experienced a few automated shows in our time. Many of the early versions of those shows were likely Light-O-Rama and used standard Christmas lighting instead of pixels. Although we always decorated extensively for Christmas, I don’t know that we ever planned on an automated Christmas show complete with props, controllers and thousands of pixels.
Then, as Christmas 2022 came to a close, someone in our neighborhood wondered aloud who might be the first house in the neighborhood to setup one of these light shows. We accepted the challenge and throughout 2023 planned our setup, purchased the various items we needed, and created our show! It was a long, difficult process and we learned a tremendous amount along the way.
Our entire setup is 12V. As you will see in the videos, we outlined the house and our windows with WS2815 LED strip lights, and then used the WS2811 bullet node pixels for the various props. We ran our show using a Kulp K16A-B with beaglebone computer with Meanwell 350W power supplies all from Wiredwatts.com. We had four singing C9 bulbs from Holidaycoro.com as well as their 19” mini-trees and a variety of their snowflakes. Unfortunately, we ran out of time to put the stars on the mini-trees. Our mega-tree supplies, candy canes, arches and some of our other snowflakes came to us from our local supplier Gilbert Engineering. And finally, pixel strips and bullet nodes were purchased through Ali Express. While we haven’t had any issues with our LED’s, we are likely to use some other recommended suppliers in the coming year.
I cannot begin to list all of the articles we read and YouTube videos watched along the way as we learned, but we are thankful to all. If anyone comes to mind on YouTube it would be “How2Pixel.” If anyone is great about breaking things down into lay terms and helping a newbie to get started, he is the one. We are thankful to everyone who helped make our first year a success and we are looking forward to getting bigger and better. In the meantime, we want to return the favor by helping anyone we can in sharing the knowledge and experience we have gained.
We would also like to thank the incredible family from Listen to Our Lights for sharing their wonderful sequences!
We won First Place with our Christmas Lights show this year and are hoping to capture that honor again next year!
This year our show included the following:
Show opening: Minion THX opening followed by “the best looking house” scene from National Lampoon Christmas Vacation, then Clark Griswold lighting the house
Christmas Medley by Lindsey Stirling
Carol of the Bells by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Another scene from Christmas Vacation: The Griswold family Christmas Tree
Christmas Vacation Movie theme song
Mary Did You Know – By Pentatonix
Need a Little Christmas – from the Cast of Glee
The Polar Express
Carol of the Bells – Epic Version by Samuel Kim
Star Wars Medley
Oh Come, Emmanuel – The Piano Guys
National Lampoon – Holiday Road
Closing our show: National Lampoon Aunt Bethany Singing the National Anthem followed by Ferris Bueller sending everyone home.

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