X10 Xmas Light Control with Pan and Zoom

zzxc writes "Last year, slashdot mentioned Alek Komarnitsky's 2002 Christmas Light display with the ability to turn ON and OFF each zone of lights. This year, he has added the ability to pan and zoom the camera in the web control, which works from 5-12 MST. You can select zoom from 1-5x, pan horizontally and vertically by selecting the angle, as well as turn each zone of lights ON or OFF. He also has sensors that tell you the current temperature, humidity, if it detects stars (vs clouds), and more. However after last year's 22,000 web controlled lights, he's "burnt out", putting up less than 4,000 lights. Last year, his lights pulled 78.6 amps of current. This year, he is only pulling about 14.7 amps. Also, last year his home T1 line was completely saturated by all the press attention. This year, he's ready. (Note that this is not referring to X10 wireless video cameras, but to power control devices using the x10 protocol.)"

Comments

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[jargoone]

I didn't see the answer to the question everyone is asking: can you pan far enough to see the girl in the bikini by the pool?

Gotta Love his Javascript popup for that link

[coolmacdude]

"Incoming Slashdot`er - Maximum Power to Web Server!"

"The #1 non-adult related webcam!

[192939495969798999]

Making it 10 trillionth overall" - Simpsons.
Seriously, though, I'd bet that this site would do really well if on xmas eve, santa showed up and deposited presents, and then did a pole dance or something.

Gratuitous linkage

[kevcol]

Do we need a link to everything that caught the posters eye ?

Who cares?

[i_am_syco]

What's the big deal? What was wrong with the good, old-fashioned throw-some-lights-in-the-bushes-and-in-the-gutters light scheme? Now, everyone's house either looks like the front yard of a church or a disco roller-arena from the 70s. Its John Travolta meets Jesus.

Hehehe....

[Anonymous Coward]

This year, he's ready.

Do I hear a challenge?

Re:Hehehe....

[notanatheist]

Also of note.. on the site he mentions "when/if the Slashdot crowd comes..." Yup, that's asking for it. I think the article should be reposted when the lights are active. Heck, post it daily until the lights are down. What's Slashdot without a good dupe?

questions i gotta ask

[morganjharvey]

Isn't this a little dangerous? I mean, putting all that light out there, couldn't an airplane mistake his house for a runway?

And who pays this guy's electricity bill?

So what if I'm jealous. Let me be bitter. :)

All I want for Christmas...

[PetoskeyGuy]

is my own T-3, my own T-3, my own T-3....

So I can have a Merry Christmas.

*sigh*

Now you've done it!

[atrader42]

You've gone and slashdotted the most common words in the english language! Now what are we going to do?

You better watch out

[Anonymous Coward]

public const bool watch_out = 1;
public const bool cry != CRY;
string why; cout why;
santa.target = "town";
apvector[99] list;
for (x = 0; x list.length(); x++)
{
kid.nice = check(list[x]);
kid.nice = check(list[x]);
if kid.nice == "naughty"
naughty(kid);
if kid.nice == "nice"
nice (kid);

if kid.state == (sleep || awake)
know(kid);
if kid.state == (bad || good)
know(kid);
}

for (x = "goodness sake"); x != ""; x = x)
cout "be good!";

public const bool watch_out = 1;
public const bool cry != CRY;
string why; cout why;
santa.target = "town";