Recent content by B4IGO

nice work @steves! What are the connectors you're using here for the pixels?

Yes, agreed. I do not apply much tension, as I like the look of the tree being slightly "soft", so that is definitely a consideration that needs to be taken into account. Importantly, as @merryoncherry points out, there are several options these days for pixels and things in the hobby have...

I'm going to throw another option at you.... since you said you want to build it once :) Bullets are nice, and pretty reliable and all... and heavy and take up a lot of space... My first tree was 24 strands x 75 square nodes at 2" spacing in boscoyo strip. Yeah it looked ok, it was pretty...

Glad I was able to inspire you @ryanschristmaslights ! The gingerbread people from Ink Creations do look fantastic, and they are a real hit with the kids. So much so I added a DIY gingerbread house this year, with 3D printed mini-props, panels in the windows and door cutout, and strip on the...

i use aluminium extrusion for LED strip. I still use the silicon sheath, and just glue/silicon the sheath onto the extrusion.

A few things I would have done if we were building again: might be too late for this one, but 2-3 nice fat conduits from the garage (where my central controllers, rPi, etc live) out into the front yard to take power/ethernet out to controllers/data cables out to differential receivers/3 core...

I'm using UniFi U6-Mesh AP's all connected via ethernet and powered by PoE. I have 3 - one upstairs, one downstairs and one in the garage. Probably way overkill but I was previously getting some dead spots in the far corners of the house with the old AP/extenders. Handover between them seems...

Do 50mm and double it over :) This image is not tensioned, as you can see, but 42 strands, 192 pixels per strand at 25mm spacing :) (50mm spaced strings doubled over)

By default the Baldrick 8 uses DHCP, and gets an IP address from your internet router (for most people's home networks). It's *possible* that the second Baldrick was given the same IP as the first if the first has been off the network, but still powered up. The first may still be hanging on to...

Case closed...

To answer question 1… seeds are not easy to keep facing one direction , but really don’t think it matters too much. From a distance I could not tell the difference on my megatree between seeds pointing inwards or outwards.

I also have a sloped driveway, similar to yours. i have some props standing up on solar tilt frames that I can just move aside, but have sometimes wondered how I could put an easily moveable matrix on there. Back on topic though, along the lines of your coreflute idea there is also the...

@Wayne1 @ryanschristmaslights they are from Ink Creations https://www.inkcreations.com.au/product/gingerbread-men-women/ They were a real hit and being printed look so good during the day or night. they also present some interesting sequencing opportunies with their various sub models for...

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