Noticed last night one of the virtical strips was “stuck” on some red glow and not doing what it should. Not sure what happened, will have to wait until it comes down for more testing. Maybe a squirrel nicked the cable? Hard to tell when most of them are under snow now. *sigh* Sure is a good thing I got a video of all the songs early on…
Yesterday was the first nice snowfall since the display went up (had one prior to setup, was panicing that I might have to shovel off the grass to setup). Noticed an issue on the mega-tree that night. Upon inspection this afternoon – 99 lights (2 strips) were out. Appears I have been terrorized by a squirrel. Wire chewed clean off right after the first bulb taking out the next 99 in the string. No chance of splicing right after that first bulb either. Grr. Why couldn’t it have gone one strip left or right? Then it would have only taken out one bulb that 99.9% of the visitors wouldn’t even notice. *sigh*
Still debating if I attempt replacing the string or not this year…
Well, amazingly Mother Natrue cooperated and gave us a VERY warm day today. All the display elements are now in place and the show is go! Will work on getting videos of this years songs up as soon as I am able.
One element (the P5 panel) is, uhm, a bit more hidden then I’d like. The landscaping bushes are partially hiding it. Guess I’ll have to add that to the list of things to redo for next year (build some kind of stand for it to be placed on that can also hep support it in the wind).
Less than 2 weeks to go, and the weather forcast between now and the start of the show is, well, less than awesome. Looks like I’m either going to be freezing cold putting out the rest of the display in the yard, or shoveling snow off the grass, or both. Hrumpf.
Doing final prep work and testing indoors. Looks like the megatree might need to replace a string of lights or two. More testing needed. There is also one bulb stuck on blue 100% of the time and has been that way for the last 2 years. I keep saying I’m going to fix that. Maybe I’ll finaly fix that this year.
Welcome to the 2022 season of Blue Moon Lights!
Tune your radio to 93.5 FM when at the house to hear the music.
This year, the display continues to expand. Planned additions include:
For those that like numbers, there planned display will have 6403 individually controllable light bulbs or “pixels” plus another 12288 in the LED panel for a total of 18691 RGB (red/green/blue) controlable elements.
Welcome to the 2021 season of Blue Moon Lights!
Tune your radio to 93.5 FM when at the house to hear the music.
This year, the new addition is my four “singing bulbs”. The arches have also made a return to this year.
For those that like numbers, there are 5607 individually controllable light bulbs or “pixels” in the display this year.
Current Show Lineup (subject to change)
The ones in quote, are original scripts written for the Singing Bulbs, performed by Amy Hartsough, Rachel Kenney-Brown, Patrick Kenney-Brown, and James Drews
There is a project that has been putting together snipits from light shows all doing the same song. xlights around the world. For the second time, I have participated in the project. The video for this year is up for this year. My house is at 45 seconds in to the video. xlights is the software that I have been using to create the light display.
Have 6 of the 9 songs for this year posted for viewing on the videos page now.
I had a visit from someone who left me a hand written thank you:
Was previewing most of the show this evening to see how well the “simulator” matched up with reality. Found I incorrectly hung one of the snowflakes (derp). I’ll correct that in software. Found a few other little tweaks to make here and there. Getting closer!
There are a few “not going to be fixed” issues (couple bad pixels, and a few that popped out). Minor, but with all that it has taken to get to this point, I’ll live with them (and I know, most people would never notice).
