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Christmas Lights and Google Maps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-a-lighter-note dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "SantaStars.com uses the Google Maps API to show the locations of some great Christmas light displays. Everyone is encouraged to post a picture of their Christmas lights and you can vote for your favorites. Some of the houses are quite elaborate like this house in British Columbia that has 87,625 computer controlled lights synchronized to an FM radio station."

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  1. A day late and a dollar short? by XorNand · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's Christmas Eve and there's only 37 houses listed? It would have made more sense to post this three weeks ago in order to get the word out.

    But not to scrooge anyone's Christmas fun, Here's a display put together by an electrical engineer in Ohio that's worth checking out (link goes to a .wmv. Also a Snopes article with more details).

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  2. Probably can be seen from space by craXORjack · · Score: 4, Interesting
    like this house in British Columbia that has 87,625 computer controlled lights synchronized to an FM radio station.

    Holy cow! Even if the average power consumption of each light was only 1/2 watt, that's still about 44KW. This guys power meter must by zinging around like a table saw.

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