brando
Full time elf
I've been meaning to do a "behind the scenes" video of my first year show, but between traveling lots for work, and yesterday testing positive for the spicy cough for the second time, I haven’t gotten around to it. So this is part placeholder, part run down of what I have.
We have quite a big house, but it is long with small frontage, so display options are relatively limited.
That being said we've managed just shy of 14,000 pixels this year, not including the 2x2 P5 Tune to sign, so ~22,000 all up.
Show is running with one master FPP - a BBB and FM transmitter in the garage, and 4 remotes - 3 x BBB's to He123Mk2's and a BBB to Kulp K8B Scroller (thanks Jarad Hall).
My two mega trees (one is 4.5m 24x150 1" spacing, other is 2m 22x90 1" spacing), my matrix (36x36 2” spacing), and the Merry Christmas sign are all power injected. The Merry Christmas sign out of convenience more than necessity. It’s on a temp fencing panel with wheels so it’s easy to open & close for garage access. It’s PI box is mounted on the fence panel, so only 3 cables run to it, one the mains power, and two ports - one would obviously be fine too.
Next years I'll rebuild all of my boxes and do away with the PI, solely for the reason of tonight, the smaller mega tree which is running at 2 strings, lost a pixel very early, so I lost half a tree.
One controller has He123 RJ 16 channel breakouts which run to 2 He123 EX breakout boards for the Rosa Grande which is running off 7 ports.
Roof outlines are 25mm electrical conduit (the grey stuff) which is drilled out with 12mm forstner bits and the back with 16mm for the the access.
Arches are 60px/m strip in seeder hose and feet are 3D printed, adapted from SFL Designs dual arch base.
Mega trees are both in portable holes with 40NB medium duty galv steel pipe, with a guy wire ring, toppers are a large and small topper from Light It Up with spigots, bullet pixles on tree strips to trampoline bases. On top of the holes I have additional weight in bags of concrete.
Rosa Grande has the 3D printed mounts that I have Brasshards 15mm pipe from Bunnings that frames into a brace onto the roof - chained down, as well as maybe a dozen sandbags. This is probably my biggest concern and looking for an idea to mount sit this on the roof better. As it's exposed it cops some decent wind. No issue yet and has dealt with some decent winds, but it still causes me anxiety, especially when I travel for work.
Ted outside the front door I have a voiceover guy who does a great Seth Macfarlane's Ted impersonation, for some snippets here and there.
I have added a Beamz Snow 1800 in the last couple of weeks. Winds have meant on opening weekend it hasn't be overly great.
Some of the sequences we've used below. I haven't done any of my own sequencing, not through lack of trying, just not a creatively minded like that.
Props have been bought from both Troy & Sam. Everything is 5V, pixels are all ETOP. I've already had maybe a dozen dead pixels, have only recently started keeping them. All up I have 10 MW's.
I've already started my planning for next year, as my 3 He123's already have the FPP licence, I'll got 144 outputs at my disposal once I add breakouts. That'll be job number one for next year before rebuilding each of my boxes.
All in all, I think I've done alright for my first year show. I got the notification this morning that it was my 12 months anniversary of joining the forums, so 12 months ago I barely knew what a pixel was, before leading to the discussion with my wife "hey let's do roof outlines", and then here we are.
I tend to learn best by just diving in and learning on the go, but would love some feedback based on what I've got here. I probably won't get around to a BTS video this week.
Boydaw Rd Lights on Facebook
We have quite a big house, but it is long with small frontage, so display options are relatively limited.
That being said we've managed just shy of 14,000 pixels this year, not including the 2x2 P5 Tune to sign, so ~22,000 all up.
Show is running with one master FPP - a BBB and FM transmitter in the garage, and 4 remotes - 3 x BBB's to He123Mk2's and a BBB to Kulp K8B Scroller (thanks Jarad Hall).
My two mega trees (one is 4.5m 24x150 1" spacing, other is 2m 22x90 1" spacing), my matrix (36x36 2” spacing), and the Merry Christmas sign are all power injected. The Merry Christmas sign out of convenience more than necessity. It’s on a temp fencing panel with wheels so it’s easy to open & close for garage access. It’s PI box is mounted on the fence panel, so only 3 cables run to it, one the mains power, and two ports - one would obviously be fine too.
Next years I'll rebuild all of my boxes and do away with the PI, solely for the reason of tonight, the smaller mega tree which is running at 2 strings, lost a pixel very early, so I lost half a tree.
One controller has He123 RJ 16 channel breakouts which run to 2 He123 EX breakout boards for the Rosa Grande which is running off 7 ports.
Roof outlines are 25mm electrical conduit (the grey stuff) which is drilled out with 12mm forstner bits and the back with 16mm for the the access.
Arches are 60px/m strip in seeder hose and feet are 3D printed, adapted from SFL Designs dual arch base.
Mega trees are both in portable holes with 40NB medium duty galv steel pipe, with a guy wire ring, toppers are a large and small topper from Light It Up with spigots, bullet pixles on tree strips to trampoline bases. On top of the holes I have additional weight in bags of concrete.
Rosa Grande has the 3D printed mounts that I have Brasshards 15mm pipe from Bunnings that frames into a brace onto the roof - chained down, as well as maybe a dozen sandbags. This is probably my biggest concern and looking for an idea to mount sit this on the roof better. As it's exposed it cops some decent wind. No issue yet and has dealt with some decent winds, but it still causes me anxiety, especially when I travel for work.
Ted outside the front door I have a voiceover guy who does a great Seth Macfarlane's Ted impersonation, for some snippets here and there.
I have added a Beamz Snow 1800 in the last couple of weeks. Winds have meant on opening weekend it hasn't be overly great.
Some of the sequences we've used below. I haven't done any of my own sequencing, not through lack of trying, just not a creatively minded like that.
Props have been bought from both Troy & Sam. Everything is 5V, pixels are all ETOP. I've already had maybe a dozen dead pixels, have only recently started keeping them. All up I have 10 MW's.
I've already started my planning for next year, as my 3 He123's already have the FPP licence, I'll got 144 outputs at my disposal once I add breakouts. That'll be job number one for next year before rebuilding each of my boxes.
All in all, I think I've done alright for my first year show. I got the notification this morning that it was my 12 months anniversary of joining the forums, so 12 months ago I barely knew what a pixel was, before leading to the discussion with my wife "hey let's do roof outlines", and then here we are.
I tend to learn best by just diving in and learning on the go, but would love some feedback based on what I've got here. I probably won't get around to a BTS video this week.
Boydaw Rd Lights on Facebook
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