Arr matey! Der be pirates here!
This year, we are starting into the decoration for Halloween (other than pumpkins and harvest).

Arr matey! Der be pirates here!
This year, we are starting into the decoration for Halloween (other than pumpkins and harvest).
Getting things setup for the inaugural year at the new house. Helpers had to take a ride in the lift!
Continue readingThe Christmas light show is now running and we are working on programming more songs to dance to the music. Please come and see our Christmas Lights in Chico! 825 Coit Tower Way, Chico, CA. Here are some shots of the house all lit up!
I had it all planned out down to the day. I knew I would miss out on some of the setup time due to my baby girl being born and taking care of her (which I happily gave up). I was right on schedule when WHAM! the cold of death hit and knocked me out for five days! As I type this, I sound like a life long chain smoker hacking a lung. This make it impossible to do anything. Needless to say the show is late starting this year. Tonight is the first night that we have something running, one song.
Here is this years’ August Burns Red, Carol Of The Bells <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/dBZe7-D3cJA” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Continue reading
Thanks to a friend for the heads up! The 2012 Tour of Lights nominations are now being taken on the Chico Enterprise Record’s (ER) website. If you like the show that we put on and would like others to see it as well this is an easy way to spread the word. There are a couple homes in the Nob Hill area (West of California Park) that I plan to nominate that have their lights up already.
I know what you are thinking… the 2012 season is not even over! I know! But I need to start thinking of next year to purchase all the needed stuff.
Greek (DIY Christmas style): PC to Ren64 to RenC to Grinch totaling 128 channels!
English: I will be building a new board/controller that is called a Renard 64 (Ren64). This board has 64 channels to control lights with (made by a guy with the last name Renard). I can then daisy-chain the Ren64 to the Grinch (Controller that I already have) through the Renard-595 Converter (RenC). This doubles the amount of channels that I have now!
Ren64:
RenC:
SSRez:
We are almost there. One more day until we “light up the house”. Sunset is scheduled for 4:46 PM, but we will start at 4:30 PM to work out any last bugs. Come by and say hi if you can.
For those of you that know our show from last years, we have moved to Chico, Ca and will be having the show here for the foreseeable future.
With the addition of more lights this year we have topped 10,000 lights and maintain the 64 Channels of dancing lights. I hope that you enjoy the hours/days/months that we have put into bring this show to the Chico area… because we absolutely love doing it!
We have all but a couple strands up, and a few that have gone out since we put them up.
2012 in Chico looks to be a very fun show featuring Trans SIberian Orchestra:Wish Lizst, Trans SIberian Orchestra:Nutrocker
, Wizards In Winter
, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
, Palladio
, & Carol Of The Bells
… and maybe more if I can get them finished by early December. We are on schedule to start around 4:30 on November 23rd.
The shows are usually around 15 min long, then loop. Still working on finding a good FM frequency to broadcast from … all the good ones are taken in Chico.