Hoodlum
New elf
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2020
- Messages
- 35
I've been lurking and now it's time for intros
Yup Perth, old and crusty guy in Butler, did a 2 x esp8266 with ws2811 strings on the full width of the gutter and 1 x mini xmas tree of 6x25 ws2811 verticals all using WLED (around 500 pixels) also had flashing aldi rope lights for drive way and reject shop Santa and sleigh last year (2022) which I started the beginning of December and I kicked myself because I got the taste of sweet sweet blinky xmas lights and I just ran out of time.
I mean I've wanted to do xmas lights for 10s of years but stuff happens in life and then you have to rent for years and the opportunity gets lost.
Well now I have a home I can light up!
This year, oh boy, I'm stepping it up, litterally 10 fold (10x) calc'd approx 5000 pixels will be on display. From a 2.5m 16x50 mini Mega tree, window outlines, driveway edging, same mini tree as last year +1, snow flakes, sticks, arches, mini 100 pixel trees x3, 60x40 pixel matrix, roof outline, a 64x32 tune in sign, oh and wife wanted 2x singing xmas trees and lastly my stock gutter pixels
I've been massing pixels and electronics for last 2 months and planning and building out my props. I'm now bust, in debt, the bank is knocking and nowhere to hide haha /jk
I'm familiar with individually addressable RGB led lights as I've been playing with them for years.
But now it's time to learn xLights, well I have been doing that and getting quite comfortable with its quirky outdated interface, but it works and I can see the incredible hard work they put into the software as I'm also a software developer by trade.
But anyways, this HoHoHo is fun!
I won't be posting much as i have heaps to do, so i guess i'll stay a lurking elf for ages to come.
Last thing, I'm building as much as I can, like all the snowflakes and singing trees so if anyone knows where to get large sheets of 10mm coro fairly cheap ( other than bunnings ) that I can pickup please reply or ping me on here
TYSM!
Yup Perth, old and crusty guy in Butler, did a 2 x esp8266 with ws2811 strings on the full width of the gutter and 1 x mini xmas tree of 6x25 ws2811 verticals all using WLED (around 500 pixels) also had flashing aldi rope lights for drive way and reject shop Santa and sleigh last year (2022) which I started the beginning of December and I kicked myself because I got the taste of sweet sweet blinky xmas lights and I just ran out of time.
I mean I've wanted to do xmas lights for 10s of years but stuff happens in life and then you have to rent for years and the opportunity gets lost.
Well now I have a home I can light up!
This year, oh boy, I'm stepping it up, litterally 10 fold (10x) calc'd approx 5000 pixels will be on display. From a 2.5m 16x50 mini Mega tree, window outlines, driveway edging, same mini tree as last year +1, snow flakes, sticks, arches, mini 100 pixel trees x3, 60x40 pixel matrix, roof outline, a 64x32 tune in sign, oh and wife wanted 2x singing xmas trees and lastly my stock gutter pixels
I've been massing pixels and electronics for last 2 months and planning and building out my props. I'm now bust, in debt, the bank is knocking and nowhere to hide haha /jk
I'm familiar with individually addressable RGB led lights as I've been playing with them for years.
But now it's time to learn xLights, well I have been doing that and getting quite comfortable with its quirky outdated interface, but it works and I can see the incredible hard work they put into the software as I'm also a software developer by trade.
But anyways, this HoHoHo is fun!
I won't be posting much as i have heaps to do, so i guess i'll stay a lurking elf for ages to come.
Last thing, I'm building as much as I can, like all the snowflakes and singing trees so if anyone knows where to get large sheets of 10mm coro fairly cheap ( other than bunnings ) that I can pickup please reply or ping me on here
TYSM!
Welcome! Glad to have you here, as always, peruse the forums, loads of details on there, as well as stop by the chat room and say Hi, folks in all the time from all over who are willing to help or have a yarn to.
