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Wedding Cake

Technology

The Countdown Clock

Original Clock (2003)

Original Clock Back (2002)

Original Clock (2004)

Clock with Half Grid (2014)

Dumb Controller (2015–2016)

Solid State Relays (2002–2017)

The Snowmen

Thank You Letter

Daytime

Snowmen Grid

Snowmen + Splash

Daytime

Falcon F16 controller in weatherproof enclosure mounted on the snowman frame

Construction

Pixels Up Close

Original snowmen wire frames during daytime setup

Emily showing the size of the snowmen

Original snowman lit up — rope light body and face, 2002

Arm back to throw — original snowman animation

Arm extended forward — original snowman animation

Snowball splat on the face — original snowman animation

The Large Grid

Single Bullet Node

Multiple Bullet Nodes

Family in Front of Grid

Front of Grid (Stored)

Back of Grid (Stored)

DMX / E1.31 with Pixels

Bullet Node

Multiple Bullet Nodes

Front of Big Grid

Back of Big Grid

Flex Strip Pixels

AlphaPix 4 Pixel Controller

Falcon F16v3

9 RGB Dumb Controller

Dumb RGB Node

Texting Your Name

System Architecture

Admin Interface

Song Voting

Song List

Voting System Architecture

Name Queue

Statistics

FAQs

Christmas Information Board

Power Monitoring Box

Power Monitoring Box (Inside)

Sensor and Arduino

Chart of Amps for Each Circuit

Average Amps/sec by Song

Under Construction

Daytime Picture

8-Port Parallel Port Controller

The Completed Box

Solid State Relays

Wiring Schematic

Empty Relay Box

Empty Relay Box (Open)

Electrical Box (Closed)

Breaking the Tab

Electrical Box (Wired)

Wiring

Parts

Wired SSRs

Completed Wired Box

The Tools

320-Circuit Parallel Port Controller

Main controller board populated with 138 decoders and 374 flip-flop ICs, 2008

Early controller board installed in enclosure lid with wiring harness, 2002

Hand-wired back of the controller perfboard

Close-up of dense hand-wiring on the controller board

Solid-state relay boxes that sit outside, 2002

Inside solid-state relays wired to switch AC circuits

8-circuit box in clear plastic enclosure, top-down view

374 Flip-Flop

138 Decoder

Write Cycle Animation

DB-25 Parallel Port Connector

Parallel Port Pinout Diagram

Christmas 2025 at the Hormanns

The Hormanns 2025 Christmas Display

Traffic - December 20, 2025

Donations - December 22, 2025

Visitors - December 23, 2025

Free Popcorn Night

Family Singing

Building new grid

Christmas 2024 at the Hormanns

The Hormanns 2024 Christmas Display

Close-up view of the 2024 display

The Christmas Car - Nov 22, 2024

Naughty or Nice tunnel - Dec 20, 2024

Car watching - Dec 22, 2024

It is crowded - Dec 23, 2024

Christmas 2023 at the Hormanns

The Hormanns 2023 Christmas Display

Santa handing out candy to visitors - Dec 24, 2023

Mrs. Claus waving to passing cars - Dec 24, 2023

Family posing in front of the Happy 2024 display on New Year's Eve

Christmas 2022 at the Hormanns

Building tunnel frame sections in the garage - Nov 5, 2022

Assembling truss sections in the yard - Nov 10, 2022

Raising the pixel grid with a lift - Nov 10, 2022

The Ditto sign directing visitors to the neighbor's display - Dec 3, 2022

Santa greeting visitors at their cars - Dec 11, 2022

Visitors sitting on their SUV watching the show - Dec 17, 2022

Christmas 2014 at the Hormanns

RGB Pixel Tree

Purple Grid

Christmas 2013 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2012 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2011 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2010 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2008–2009 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2004–2007 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2003 at the Hormanns

Christmas 2002 at the Hormanns

Controller Board

The Computer

Controller Box (Closed)

Controller Box (Open)

Christmas 2001 at the Hormanns

The Star

Boxes Hooked Up

The Computer

The Sign