Chuck Smith

  • Outdoor DecoratingPixel Jargon

    We’ve made it too complicated!

    Remember chaser strings from long ago?  Wrap one of those around your Christmas tree and suddenly it had personality.  The string had a controller at the end about the size of a matchbox.  Press a button to pick a pattern and you were done programming the computer. Drive around now and some of the over-the-top Christmas displays with thousands of pixels and dozens of color changing props make the old chaser strings look like they were from the stone age.  Lots of WOW but at what cost? Today’s flashy Christmas displays require you to be a computer nerd with a…

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  • Outdoor DecoratingPlanetChristmas 2023

    PlanetChristmas is back in 2023!

    Here’s a short video (just over a minute) that shows the highlights of PlanetChristmas 2023. The last major light display at the PlanetChristmas world headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee was way back in 2003.  LEDs and digital pixels were science fiction.  Watching the electric meter spin like a top when all the outside Christmas lights were on was normal.  When the lights were the brightest outside the house the lights were dimming inside, My how times have changed.  Watch the full length video below. The PlanetChristmas synchronized light display is finally back home.  Chuck Smith is using it as a testing…

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