Duszak Family Lights
Ever since I was little I remember wanting to know how things work. I'm sure a lot of people do but I took it a little further then most.
I have always enjoyed decorating for Halloween and Christmas and a few years ago I saw an email with lights that appeared to play in time to music.
The next day I looked into figuring out first if that display was real and when I found out it was, tried to figure out how he did it. After seeing that it was done using commercial hardware and software and what was used in creating their display, I knew there had to be a cheaper alternative.
I decided to research and build my own pic based dimmers and I needed to build a lot of them.
I spent most of 2008 figuring out how to make the show work, building all the features and programming the show. It was right down to the wire and though most of the show had been tested and running there were some issues and I didn't get to test some components of the show until thirty minutes before opening night. Thankfully the show went off without a hitch, and we were even lucky enough to have a firetruck roll through in front of our opening night crowd carrying Santa. Everyone thought we set it up but it was just random luck.
Anyway, if anyone else likes to take things apart and truly understand how things work, this is a lot of fun but more time comsuming then you can imagine. This is just one way I like to show my creativity and with the approval of my wife I hope to continue doing Bigger and Brighter shows in the years to come!
Ron D.
I have always enjoyed decorating for Halloween and Christmas and a few years ago I saw an email with lights that appeared to play in time to music.
The next day I looked into figuring out first if that display was real and when I found out it was, tried to figure out how he did it. After seeing that it was done using commercial hardware and software and what was used in creating their display, I knew there had to be a cheaper alternative.
I decided to research and build my own pic based dimmers and I needed to build a lot of them.
I spent most of 2008 figuring out how to make the show work, building all the features and programming the show. It was right down to the wire and though most of the show had been tested and running there were some issues and I didn't get to test some components of the show until thirty minutes before opening night. Thankfully the show went off without a hitch, and we were even lucky enough to have a firetruck roll through in front of our opening night crowd carrying Santa. Everyone thought we set it up but it was just random luck.
Anyway, if anyone else likes to take things apart and truly understand how things work, this is a lot of fun but more time comsuming then you can imagine. This is just one way I like to show my creativity and with the approval of my wife I hope to continue doing Bigger and Brighter shows in the years to come!
Ron D.
