Howdy. My name is Scott McLellan. It's Denny's fault I'm here. Saw him in the paper and since I also work at IBM, sent him email through there. No, the paper didn't do this group any justice, but Denny helped point me in the right direction...
Been "addicted" to lights for a long time. We used to go to the Chick-Fil-A event at the Amphitheater here in Raleigh a couple times a year just to watch in amazement. But once I saw that you could program them to flash and sync to the music, I had to have that. Of course, the only web sites I've been able to find about how they built theirs didn't ever give you enough details and the guys were always writing their own software to sync the music. I'm smart, but don't have that much time on my hands to figure it all out from scratch.
For me, it also doesn't hurt that I've been a TSO fan since the early 90s and fans of the guys who launched that band since the 80s. (PS - you know you've made it as a band when your music is played at Walt Disney World in their light display...)
After seeing a street near my parents in Mooresville, NC a couple years ago where the entire cul-de-sac was rigged to the same system, had the FM transmitter, and all flashed in tune to the same music, I decided I had to convince the neighbors to do that. Of course, I had to figure out how to do it for myself first....
While y'all will probably barf at this, my parents picked up the GE "Mr. Christmas" (I think) set for me last year and I've got that up and running this year and loving it. Video is here:
I'm know I'm in the amateur league, but you have to start somewhere...
I don't know what an LOR is. I don't know what a blowmold is. I do know what inflatables are, as I've used a couple different snow globes and carousels in my own previous displays as well. So I'm looking forward to finding the "beginner's guide" here and spending many late nights figuring it out before the group buy ends soon...![]()
So my ambition is to get something set up that's not horribly complicated, but that I can assist getting all the neighbors to plug into. Should be an awesome display. Like I said, you gotta start somewhere...
So I'm looking forward to y'all helping me feed my addiction and hopefully I can bring something to the group as well!
Talk to you more real soon!!!
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