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July 2024 Update

To start off our website has been updated. The countdown timers to lights on, and our family night are now active.

Having just returned from our annual Christmas convention (now called EXPO) that I had been involved with, originally organizing it back in 2005 when it was called PLUS, and now teaching at it, I have added an updated presentation on using FM transmission in holiday displays.

This update covers the recent, very significant FCC actions involving the use of FM transmitters, hence the need to update the presentation!

You will find it, along with other informational presentations given over the years, in the how-to section of our website.

My major efforts over the last several months has been focused on redesigning much of our display, given our home was just sided and I have been given “direction” that nothing is to be attached to the siding.

This opened the door to adding new elements, including a new HD pixel tree to replace our long standing red LED tree, that has been in operation since 2004 (and has not had a single LED fail over its 20 season run)!

We are adding another projector to display the synchronized videos that formerly was shown via a large screen TV attached to the front of the house.

Over the next several months I will be working on moving the house elements into the display area, which will require some engineering, but will be worth it, when done.

The projection mapping that covers the Southern end of our home has been greatly improved with the addition of the new siding and some “tweaks” I have made to the projector system. Sound has been added to many of the projections as well.

That’s it for now, as I still have much to do to get the display ready for this upcoming season.

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