2025 was a bit quiet on the improvement front. Only did the small garage door which took a few goes and prototypes to get right (ended up 3D Printing a panel, and learning how not resilient seed pixels really are) but the results came out pretty well. Spent the rest of my time sequencing up the...
I've been asked a few times now for the Bluey - Flashing Lights sequence, so here's my version of it uploaded to the xLights Share:
View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iKIglHNZYaPW9uWd96Yv5rkDH-wSndRr/view?usp=drive_link
Similar to the one used here:
The 8mm stuff is what I use for my garage matrix panels. Very solid especially when compared to the 5mm Bunnings stuff. Having said that, being able to purchase black 5mm corflute. Both are reinforced with some 20mm and 25mm conduit in a rectangular frame.
I moved house this year leaving 4 months to retrofit our smaller frontage onto the larger canvas. We also went from a quiet court location with very few displays around us to an area where nearly every 4 houses or so had some kind of Christmas decorations out so we naturally ended up on a...
My take on it is that I do it for my kids and those in the street. Anyone else who sees it is a bonus. I don't advertise anywhere, have a website or interactive elements.
We moved house this year from a private court to a through road and given the amount of traffic - I would not dream of...