Christmas Display
Both of us are big on
Christmas. Mary likes the shopping and interior decorating, and Greg is big on outside Christmas displays. In
2001, Greg started experimenting with animated displays that are controlled by a computer. That year he built two
parallel port controls that could control 8 circuits each. These were simple to build and control, but didn't provide much growth potential.
For
2002, Greg started in January trying to find a design that would allow him to control many more circuits without purchasing expensive Digital I/O Boards. In February, he found Hill Robertson's design for
a 320 circuit device that could be controlled by a parallel port. He spent much of the year building our own version. These days, we leverage
Xlights,
FPP, and
Pixels controlled by E1.31.
Past Displays:
2001 2002 2003 2004-2007 2008-2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023