{"id":125,"date":"2005-12-05T18:27:56","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-12-05T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T18:27:56","slug":"christmas-light-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Light Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little video intrigued me, I had to do a little searching on how this was done.  Its stated on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/arts\/xmaslights.asp\" target=\"_blank\">snopes.com<\/a> that \u201cCarson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months hooking up. So that the Williams&#8217; neighbors aren&#8217;t disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.\u201d<br \/>\nSo I followed links on that site and looked up the Light-O-Rama equipment, and its going to run like $900 just for the computer hardware to control the lighting.  So maybe in a few years when I have my own house, I\u2019ll be able to do something like that.  Probably won\u2019t matter at that point, it\u2019ll be old news, but that kind of stuff interests me.  Lots of sites online have people commenting on \u2018someone has too much time on their hands\u2019; well it really doesn\u2019t take that long if you have the right equipment and know how.  He is an electrical engineer, I&#8217;m mechanical, but I bet I could figure it out.<br \/>\nClick below or Permalink to watch the video:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<embed type=\"application\/x-mplayer2\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Windows\/MediaPlayer\/\" name=\"mediaplayer1\" showstatusbar=\"1\" EnableContextMenu=\"false\" autostart=\"false\"  width=\"480\" height=\"430\"  transparentstart=\"1\" loop=\"0\" controller=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/photofill.com\/lights.wmv\"><\/embed><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/counter.dreamhost.com\/cgi-bin\/Count.cgi?df=whiteography-lightshow.dat&#038;pad=F&#038;ft=0&#038;dd=E&#038;istrip=T' border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little video intrigued me, I had to do a little searching on how this was done. Its stated on snopes.com that \u201cCarson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/?p=125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photofill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photofill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}