This is a new Christmas project. I thought I would downsize from my 6000 light house display to a model house, about 1 meter cubed. This house will have 96 channels available to flash lights, pop elves out of doors, rabbits out of holes, etc. All synchronized to music. I started on this during Christmas holidays 2007. Watch for updates.
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3D house I designed to serve as a guide for the actual house
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Template for the roof
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Fiber-glassed
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Cardboard towers being fiber-glassed for strength
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Inside bottom of tower
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Roof on, holes cut for windows
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The 3 towers with roofs
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Back of towers showing floors and dividers where lights go
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There are 20 lights like this for the towers alone, each individually
controlled by a computer channel
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Towers showing opaque plastic in windows
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Covers for the back of the towers to prevent light leakage
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Lighting test, before the covers were put on
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Frame for yard
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Fiber-glassed yard
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House walls installed
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Closer view of walls
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House and yard together. The gaps between the two will be filled in
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Long shot of the setup on my bench
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Have to fill in hill around corners of house, install doors and windows