Christmas in Timber Town

Friday, April 30, 2010

Audio Components

Music being a big part of the show must be heard but how? Using spare parts from another computer audio board, we made a cable with 3 jacks on the end. One jack is for my computer's own speakers so we can hear what we are broadcasting. Another jack is used for audio that is ran out to the yard for people to hear it on the speakers hidden in Snoopy's doghouse. Paired up with the cable is another type of jack (RCA) leading to the FM transmitter we bought from Canakit.com for about 20 dollars. The range of the transmitter was supposed to be 500 feet but at 5 blocks away, you could still hear it. So we might broadcast Christmas music even if the lights are off. Noise ordinances forbid loud music after 10 PM so we won't play the yard speakers after that.