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2025 Portable Christmas Light Show
Problem In 2024, my NSBE chapter participated in the Montgomery Christmas Parade. This was the first year of doing it and we were not properly prepared. I saw other...
Light String Identifier Labels
I decided to track the Christmas lights to see how long they would last, and to know which lights belonged to where. This is the numbering scheme that I came up with....
2025 Christmas Light Show
Pick The Song This year, we are allowing viewers to pick the song that they want to see played. To select a song, visit the Light Show Jukebox Page. Your song request will...
Landscape Lighting
Problem A number of people have seen the lights on my house during Christmas time and thought they were cool. I wanted to light up the house to be festive during the...
Holiday Landscape Light Script for Falcon Pi Player
I use Falcon PI Player for my holiday lighting. After adding flood lights to the light show this past year, I wanted to use the landscape or flood lights year round for...
2024 Christmas Light Show
Pick The Song This year, we are allowing viewers to pick the song that they want to see played. To select a song, visit the Light Show Jukebox Page. Your song request will...
ESP32 Traffic Light Controller
Problem Pupose of this project was to replace the Raspberry Pi traffic light controller (Traffic Pi) that I had created. Problem with using a Raspberry Pi for projects...
Light Show Channel Mapping
It can be difficult what wire connects to what. I create this channel mapping page so that I do not have to remember how my channels are mapped and that all my...
Falcon Pi Twitter
Problem I wanted to have a way for the visitors to my light show are able to find out the information about the song that was currently playing. Some other Light Show...
Thermometer Pi
Project Background A common problem that exists with US home construction is that multiple story homes were built with a single zoned HVAC system. Often times, that...
Raspberry Pi Traffic Light Controller (TrafficPi)
Solution The purpose of this project is to educate children about the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. Through the use of low cost devices...
2023 Christmas Light Show
Pick The Song This year, we are allowing viewers to pick the song that they want to see played. To select a song, visit the Light Show Jukebox Page. Your song request will...
2022 Christmas Light Show
Show Dates and Times Show will run nightly from November 25, 2022 until January 1, 2023 from 4:30 PM (16:30) until 10:00 PM (22:00). During times of heavy rain or severe...
2021 Christmas Light Show
Show Dates and Times Show will run nightly from November 25, 2021 until December 25, 2021. Nightly, Pre-show (static lights) starts at 4:30 PM (16:30) Nightly, 5:30 PM...
2020 Christmas Light Show
Show Details Show Dates and Times Show will run nightly from November 27, 2020 until January 2, 2021. Sunday-Thursday, 5:00 PM (17:00) until 9:30 PM (21:30) Friday and...
2019 Christmas Light Show
2019 Christmas Light Show Hardware Christmas Lights All of the lights are LED. Only two colors are used for the light show, white and red. Timer All of the lights were...
RaspiTraffic Demo, US Signaling
RaspiTraffic Demo, US Signaling Demonstration showing a real traffic light being controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The signaling performed in this diagram follows the US...
Raspberry Pi First Run and Installing Updates
Background If you don't have a Raspberry Pi, this will show you what the first run of one looks like after you have flashed Raspbian to a memory card. This is the first...