Putting together a Christmas Light display takes a lot of work. All of the pieces in our show were assembled by hand, and all of the programming was done specifically for the show, down to the tenth of a second!
The Mega Matrix
People often ask how we turned the entire side of our house into a mega matrix. Well, we had help! Thanks to TTLC Roofing, we permanently installed framing along the roof line. Then, using a custom-engineered bracketing system, we hung strips of pixels custom-cut to the shape of our house. In total, the matrix contains over 40,000 pixels.
Christmas Trees
We built the trees using tomato baskets wrapped in chicken wire. We then wrapped 800 Christmas lights around each tree!
Candy Canes
The candy canes were made using 3in. wide PVC pipe wrapped with red duct tape then topped with store-bought 12in Christmas bulbs. The bulbs were gutted and 100 lights were inserted in through the bottom, to give them extra glow.
Corrugated Props
Snowflakes, characters, and many other props were bought online as a pre-cut corrugated plastic shape with the holes pre-drilled. Each pixel is individually pushed through its hole, which can be tough on the hands. Scott wraps duct tape around gardening gloves to protect his hands when pixel pushing.
Electronics
Synchronizing lights to music takes a lot of electronics! The whole show uses over forty control boxes, each of which runs 16 channels. That’s 640 different channels that are each programmed individually for every second of every song. That’s a lot of programming!
Nutcrackers
The 6 foot nutcrackers were store bought, but came with only a few lights inside. We opened them up and filled them with 300 LED white lights each.
Oswego Lights 