I worked hard this weekend putting my plan into action on the photo processing. I had my wife Gloria give me one of her old albums as at test. There were 375 photo’s in that beast! In the previous post I mentioned a sideline business in which some people may be interested. That is developing electronic and printed book photo albums. This looks like a can do project. I was able to do great scans...
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Wizards in Winter
You have been asking for the video of the Christmas lights. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. Be aware that it is slightly over 25 meg. It is in Flash format, so make sure your viewer is up to date. (It will remind you.) It is also set for progressive download so I hope the low bandwidth folks can enjoy too. Oh yes, turn up the audio and really FEEL the music! Wizards in...
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Here are some pictures of my Christmas project, The Light-O-Rama controllers on the front of my house. This first one is the MASTER controller. Notice the two CAT5 cables in the second photo. The green cable goes to the second controller. The Yellow runs inside to my computer. It looks like a rat’s nest of wires and it sort of is. It takes a separate circuit to each string of lights I want to control....
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I have the Light-O-Rama boards working. WOW! what a show. I have about 28 of the 32 outputs hooked up to various lights. I haven’t had the time yet to synchronize the lighting to Christmas music but that is coming. I have the FM transmitter functioning (also kit built) and it works great too. Currently I have a silent two minute routine written that loops back and starts over. The show starts at dark and...
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