• Falcon Christmas
  • If your intrested in using the Raspberry Pi or the Beagle Bone microprocessors to run your show. This is the group to join. They also have a great line of Falcon controllers to control pixel led lighting.

  • Australian Christmas Lighting
  • If your intrested in RGB (Red, Green, Blue) Led Pixels with very high channel counts. This is where you should be. This forum is focused mainly on the Tiger series of DIY DMX controllers.

  • Do It Yourself Christmas
  • The best site for all aspects of the DIY lighting - very friendly and helpful group. This forum is focused mainly on the Renard series of DIY controllers.

  • Do It Yourself Lighting Animation
  • This site specializes on the controller designs of Robert Jordan and his Lynx series. All of the controllers are DMX based and there are even wireless interfaces available to reduce the amount of wiring clutter.

  • Planet Christmas
  • This site is geared more towards the Light-O-Rama hardware but has a lot of DIY information too.

  • Computer Christmas
  • Computer Christmas is a site full of contributions from people all over the world for Christmas light enthusiasts.

  • Joshua 1 Systems Inc.
  • Ed has created Ethernet Connection Gateway (EthConGateway) ECG-DR4 & ECG-DMXRen8. Both use the E1.31 protocol and streams DMX over Ethernet. This is a must have if you have very large channel count.

  • Nutcracker/xLights
  • This is the sequencing software that I use to make my Christmas display dance to music.