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Mini Trees - a work in progress
« on: August 26, 2010, 11:23:12 PM »
We decided like so many before us that we were lacking in some mini trees.

Lacking in any welding skills we decided to subcontract to my cousin who has a truly excellent shed. We forgot that a farmer has a different idea of 'sturdy' though!

These are about 700mm high, and we have 7 of them. They are designed to fit onto a star picket (we have a fence in the front yard so we need them raised about 1m off the ground)
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 11:56:09 PM »
great job and design !!! they look very sturdy.
they make my tomato cages look extremely inadequate     ;D

wish i had a welder to build these sorts of wire frames.
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2010, 01:11:26 AM »
Looks like those will last a life time!!  Nice.
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2010, 06:51:13 AM »
Looks like a great project to cover with a water resistant film, and install a bunch of RGB's into it with it's own little DMX controller....But than again, I over do everything on here.
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2010, 01:31:00 PM »
apparently they are already coated with some anti-corrosion stuff.

we will wrap with 4 colours (160 LEDs each colour) and all 7 will be run off a DMX controller. We just have to wait for our order of lights to arrive so that we can get on with construction!
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2010, 10:29:48 PM »
Each tree has 8 strings, RGBW x2. See photos now attached to the first post.
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2010, 10:31:13 PM »
Nice work, they will look great

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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2010, 10:32:32 PM »
fortunately mum is away, otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to leave trees lying around the dining room!
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2010, 11:31:20 PM »
yes and also the other projects for our stars and megatree . Info to follow. Now having a mate of mine laser cutting some perspex panels for mounting the leds's with 6mm holes for the LED's to fit into, making 18 of them
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2010, 11:33:29 PM »
and you better not let mum read this after the fact :)

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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2010, 05:40:39 AM »
hey nice work tuppet and tuppetsdad..

I reckon you guys have it in you to pull off a great show..  Engineers make the best christmas lights.

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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2010, 10:28:26 PM »
Yes boxes of lights are nearly empty now and our front room is full of Christmas trees. Now have our small Megatree under test.... Why do I feel tired now on Mondays?
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2010, 08:09:49 AM »
Quote from: tuppetsdad on October 18, 2010, 10:28:26 PM
Why do I feel tired now on Mondays?

Funny that as Christmas gets closer i seem to find that Mondays are harder
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Re: Mini Trees - finished!
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2010, 10:16:39 PM »
now for the final product: [ Guests cannot view attachments ]
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Re: Mini Trees - a work in progress
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2010, 11:06:08 PM »
brilliant
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