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Brisbane Christmas Lights Blow My Mind

1:00PM Nick Broughall | I always thought that the Christmas lights around our suburb were pretty awesome, but after seeing this, I know that Brisbane is the place to go for a really awesome light show. Michael Sallaway used over 70,000 lights, which are completely computer controlled on over 300 individual channels. Micahel designed and built the controller boards himself, and then did all the synchronisation to the music by hand using the free Vixen Lights software, taking about 30 hours to code the entire song. More »
GPS

Get Melbourne, Sydney And Brisbane Traffic On Your Satnav Today

9:15AM Nick Broughall | Yesterday, the SUNA traffic channel officially went live in Sydney and Brisbane, joining Melbourne to offer real-time traffic updates for the East Coast capital cities (sorry Canberra, you’re still to come). But how do you get it? Thankfully, getting traffic updates isn’t as tricky a process as you would think, even if you already own a satnav device… More »