How We Did It      We have received a lot of questions regarding how we made our holiday house. I must tell you that it was a blast standing out front amongst the crowd and listening to how other people thought we did it. I heard all sorts of ideas, but none that correctly describes how we pulled it off. This page should give you an idea of what it took to make this project a reality.      We found ourselves limited by off-the-shelf products and solutions as we normally do, so we decided to build our own hardware and software from scratch to control the entire thing in real time. Other solutions such as DMX controls need to be tediously scripted which could take weeks or even months. We were able to bypass that with our Holiday House control software that controls the entire house in real time. Some of the songs can have over 2,000,000 control states or about 10,000 control changes per second. The software rivals control software used to run the Bellagio water show in Las Vegas Nevada.      Please stay tuned or join our mailing list to be updated when we enhance this part of our site. [ home ]   [ sponsors ]   [ videos ]   [ pictures ] [ show hours ]   [ directions ]   [ how we did it ] [ feedback ]   [ special thanks ] [ mailing list ]   [ contact us ] © 2006-2007 Light Up Xmas . com info@lightupxmas.com christmas lights, christmas lights times to music, holiday house, holiday house timed to music, custom christmas light show, christmas light show, Christmas lights dance to music, lights dance to music, Christmas lights on tv, amazing Christmas lights, Christmas lights on display, cool Christmas lights, dazzling Christmas lights, best Christmas light show, Sacramento lights, Sacramento Christmas lights, sacramento light display, really cool light display, amazing light display, breathtaking light display, Carmichael Christmas lights, Carmichael light display, Carmichael lights, computer controlled lights, computer controlled Christmas lights, computer controlled holiday lights, holiday lights, holiday light display holiday display in sacramento, best light show, best holiday show