Christmas Thread

[MountainGirl]

Too early? Nah... turkey's digested.

 

[Geezer]

OK, I changed my avatar. That's about at Christmasy as I get.

 

[JC1]

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[Texasjack]

What does a Christmas ornament have in common with Jeffrey Epstein? Neither one hung themselves.

 

[kbaxter60]

OK, I changed my avatar. That's about at Christmasy as I get.

Ho ho ho!

 

[seeker_two]

 

[Vaquero]

 

[dsgrey]

Ho, ho, ho! Christmas lights to the right while my neighbor patrols with his AR-15 this morning.

Long story but several cars have been vandalized the past few weeks. Plus he's had two pickups stolen in front of his home this year.

 

[popsgarland]

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Hey @Vaquero, that's a cool hat your wearing .
Does it keep your head warm?

 

[Vaquero]

 

[Vaquero]

Hey @Vaquero, that's a cool hat your wearing .
Does it keep your head warm?

One of 'em.

 

[Otto_Mation]

I decided that I should put out the Christmas decorations. It took a lot of time but I think that it was worth the effort.

 

[Vaquero]

Lotta snow for your area.

 

[TXOFFSHORE]

What does a Christmas ornament have in common with Jeffrey Epstein? Neither one hung themselves.

Out of pocket!

 

[TXOFFSHORE]

Hey hoooo Hanukkah

 

[TXOFFSHORE]

I decided that I should put out the Christmas decorations. It took a lot of time but I think that it was worth the effort.

Trendy…others just won’t understand

 

[no2gates]

It's not pretty, but it works. This is the controller box I built for the Christmas lights setup I designed and built. Running on a Raspberry Pi 3 along with Arduinos and ESP32 WiFI modules. It controls 1500 individual lights all choreographed to 8 different Christmas songs. Broadcast on FM to people's car stereos to tun in plus waterproof speakers on the lawn for people who want to walk up to hear it.
The box only took me a few hours to build, but each song took 4 to 6 hours each to get the light sequence down. The tree took a few days to build and wire up. I have to put it all up tomorrow.

Plus there's 5 of these I had to program, solder, and enclose in PVC

All to do this:
and this:

 

[Coiled]

 

[Txhighlander]

It's not pretty, but it works. This is the controller box I built for the Christmas lights setup I designed and built. Running on a Raspberry Pi 3 along with Arduinos and ESP32 WiFI modules. It controls 1500 individual lights all choreographed to 8 different Christmas songs. Broadcast on FM to people's car stereos to tun in plus waterproof speakers on the lawn for people who want to walk up to hear it.
The box only took me a few hours to build, but each song took 4 to 6 hours each to get the light sequence down. The tree took a few days to build and wire up. I have to put it all up tomorrow.

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Plus there's 5 of these I had to program, solder, and enclose in PVC


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All to do this:
and this:

Me thinks you have way to much time on your hands, but beyond cool.

 

[no2gates]

Me thinks you have way to much time on your hands, but beyond cool.

Thanks.
The reason I built it was my kids. We used to take them to a house nearby where someone did something similar, we would take the kids there 2 years in a row to have them watch the light show, then one year they moved away.. My kids (who were 6 and 7 at the time), kept talking about how they wished someone would make a Christmas lights display like that house had. Well, I figured it was my fatherly duty to do it.