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Hi All, After testing last night, and thanks to the visitors who stopped in, we are up and running from 7pm to 10pm from now until NYE. If anyone from Melbourne is in the Ringwood area, please feel free to walk the front lawn at 248 Canterbury Road Heathmont. If anyone starting out would like a...

Hi Darkwinx, Welcome to one of the most addictive hobbies there is. This will be my fourth year. There is great support from the community out there, they are amazing. Locally, Hanson Electronics I've used heaps for different bits, very reliable, located in Vic. I'm located in Ringwood...

Hi, I know it's not Christmassy, but in memory of Olivia Newton John I was hoping to find a sequence to Grease Megamix. If anyone knows of somewhere please let me know. Thanks Colin

Hi Jase and welcome. My second year doing, and yes very addictive. The support from the ACL community Is amazing. The xlights meeting rooms are gold if you need help trouble shooting an issue. I'm out in sleepy little Heathmont if. You want to drop by for a walk through some time. Kind Regards...

Hi, I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I've run out of ideas. I've built a 70x40 pixel matrix. It's 10 strings of 280 nodes, with 4 strands of 70 nodes per string. Test mode on f48 lights up the whole board. When I play through xlights my video does not show the top 5 rows, or the bottom 5...

Last year I bought two of these acrylic trees when Bunnings was clearing them out. Finally got round to ripping out the guts and putting pixels inside. I guess I'll keep on eye out on the non programmable ranges the stores have this year to see if there's anything else I can transform. Let me...

They'll just sit in a garden bed as part of my display. Like everything in my display it's made for just ease of setup.

Pu I purchased rigid frosted tube on eBay 45.00 for 1m length delivered.

Hi, Just my second year doing this here in Melbourne. Just thought I'd share my Pixel Poles I've made. Used acrylic base with a plumbing flange gasket from Bunnings, clear tube, and plumbing end cap for the top, with ws2811 1m strip inside. Regards Colin

Hi, Just my second year doing this here in Melbourne. Just thought I'd share my Pixel Poles I've made. Colin

Thanks guys for replies. Very helpful.

Hi, hoping for a little bit of help. Making a singing Face and can't read what the bottom 6 face outlines are in Xlights. I think they are to do with the eyes. Any help appreciated. Colin

Hi, 2nd year doing programmable lights. I want to do a matrix this year. I do have a spare 1500 pixels and was thinking of doing a 30x50 pixel matrix........ But then started hearing about p10s. So just wanted some opinions on whether to just do the pixel matrix or go the p10 approach...

Ive also used these brackets to mount my snowflakes on the roof. Again just cable tie prop to and seconds to take down.

And my top hat spans just hang in the roof of the shed off-season.