This is our 1st song in this year's show. It was a great way to start the show. Great message, good beat, good visualizations. Lots of cool images highlighting our mega tree. The mega tree is your basic beginners tree from HolidayCoro - 180 degree, half tree. 16 strands, 50 pixels per strand for a total of 800 pixels. The star is a 3-ring 36" prop from Boscoyo and has 150 pixels. The total height of the tree is 11 1/2 feet tall! Next year we will be going bigger, making the tree much more dense - 360 deg. round tree, 32 strands, 100 pixels/strand for a total of 3200 pixels plus a 370 pixel, 9-ring star from Gilbert Engineering

This first display contains almost 9,000 individually programmable RGB pixels from Mattos Designs primarily (but also from Wired Watts, Wally's Lights and Your Pixel Store). The lights are programmed using xLights (community supported software from the xLights.org team). They are controlled this year by HinksPix Pro pixel controllers and smart receivers from HolidayCoro. The show is automated by smart switches, a MS Windows show computer. The music is broadcast using outdoor speakers and over a FM radio station using a very low-powered FM transmitter.

The show consists of house/roof outlines, snowflakes, candy canes, leaping arches, mini trees, a high-definition Starburst from Gilbert Engineering and a 12-foot-tall mega tree. The entire show run on very little electricity as all of the lights are RGB LED pixels.

The Singing Trees (from EFL designs) and Singing Bulbs (from Gilbert Engineering) are programmed using machine learning algorithms that align the phoneme vocal movements to the music track.

Sequencing purchased from Pixel Pro Displays and customized/extended by Kevin Parker.

Merry Christmas!!

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