Recent content by tooms

It's how I started, I think a megatree is a great way to get into it as it's basically the hero of the display and easy to build on, I basically started with a 16 x 100 tree then expanded it to 32 x 175 over time, all while adding more props and other things to the display. Suggest buy a big...

Not a control box, but I made a bunch of these diff receiver + power dist enclosures a while ago, the enclosure is available at bunnings in the electrical section, along with the glands.

Not really .. maybe with an ultra fine blade it might get a nice cut, but I did try a bunch of different ways to cut coro many years ago, most mechanical type cutting tools just leave really rough edges. You can buy dedicated coro cutting tools -...

Generally, Falcon receivers work with Kulp controllers, I dont believe Daniel Kulp makes any receiver boards himself, as for alphapix or expeirence lights type brands, I've never tried. I've moved away from differential receivers and over to smaller controllers, it uses the same cabling anyway...

I need to rebuild my mega tree, will probably add a bit more height to it (another meter maybe), almost every string has a wonky pixel in it that's off colour, it's about 7-8 years old now so I've had a good run with it, but I've also got a bunch of other older props that need some TLC before...

I used a kulp 32 port controller to run my tree, it's a controller purely dedicated to it, 32 x 175 nodes per string, each string on it's own output, 4 x 300 something watt outdoor / external power supplies so there's not much heat inside the enclosure, no power injection, I keep the brightness...

A singing koala would be pretty cool, or singing emus

I thought the same, I looked at some of the clickit's and similar things yesterday and they all have a footnote of "not suitable for seeds" , I think I have seen a small PCB around with 6 pads, probably the easiest way Edit: @AAH sells them -...

I'm using a raspberry pi 4 board as the dedicated fpp / show player, and then a USB soundblaster adaptor that's connected to the FM transmitter, I was able to get an ethernet cable from the display into the house this year, so I've moved the FPP player and transmitter into my office

Hi Dom, feel free to share .. I’m on the Baldrick FB page!

I've "vibe coded" a website to collect stats from the Signals board and upload the data to a google sheet, I've then used a github.com hosted repo to publish a website. Source code is here - https://github.com/dhooper6430/danslights Example site here - https://danslights.com The signals board...

Not electrical or data related, but a massive shed or attic to store it all

I've got a very similar topper, I just drilled and bolted 2 short pieces of angle iron to it, then drilled a hole through all of that with the main pipe in place, for the star on top of the topper I drilled a few more holes to bolt another bracket that sits on top

I'd just go back to basics and try putting an external antenna on your existing wireless device that's in your shed / mancave, if whatever you have at the moment has a TNC / SMA / whatever antenna connector, buy a 2.4/5ghz OMNI outdoor antenna and put the antenna outside and run a cable back to...

I'm currently looking to replace smart receivers with the 8 port baldrick boards, it's a shame Falcon stopped making their 4 port controllers. In my opinion and as others have stated, you can drive more pixels over IP on top of an ethernet cable then what you can with receivers, given that you...