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It's a Guitar Hero Christmas


By Garret - Posted on 14 December 2009

 I caught this one 1UP.com. *Somebody* has way too much time on his hands... but I laugh in amazement anyway, which I guess is the point. The owner of this house rigged his Christmas lights to mimic Guitar Hero, and the video shows a kid actually playing the game of the garage door lights. Solo!

People can tend to get carried away with Christmas light decorations, but this is something else. In the clip above, you can see the home of former Disney Imagineer and special effects specialist Ric Turner, which he decked out himself for the holiday. And it appears he's also a Guitar Hero fan, because his house actually lets you play the game by following the lights on his garage door.
Turner offered up a detailed explanation of how exactly he built this wonderment to Make Online (via Kotaku), which involved using "7 light controllers from Light-O-Rama built from kits to control 21,268 lights and LEDs. Each controller has 16 outputs and 2-3 TTL level control inputs that are used by the game system to fire different programmed light sequences depending on what happens in the game."