First year done - time to start planning 2025

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macmanluke

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Last minute decision to give pixel led christmas lights a go
Started off ordering 1000 seed pixels from rawyu start of november with plans to run a house outline and a few other small bits with esp32 controllers
Escalated to ordering another 2000 pixels and a baldrick controller mid november
Had the basics up and running by start of december, adding/modifying to it up until i packed up today.

Controller: Baldrick8
PSU: 12v 250w cheapy i had from an old 3d printer
Cabling: 100m of Alarm cable
Lights: Around 2500 Raywu seed pixels - 50mm and 100mm spacing
Music: Pulsemesh streaming
Props: All DIY with a lot of 3d printing.



Plans for 2025:
More lights / Props inc more house outlines, snow flakes, mega tree, mini trees, another more dense matrix (maybe p5)
FM Transmitter and push for music
Signage (eg tune to, times)
 
Nice work! 👏
I am new as well and didn't know the seed pixels could be this bright and uniform (or that they came in 12 volt).
I started with some bullet pixels that light up our gable side-on. For 2025 I want some house outlines that face the street but the bullets don't look right in my tests. Might have to give the seed pixels a go.
 
EvanJ said:
Nice work! 👏
I am new as well and didn't know the seed pixels could be this bright and uniform (or that they came in 12 volt).
I started with some bullet pixels that light up our gable side-on. For 2025 I want some house outlines that face the street but the bullets don't look right in my tests. Might have to give the seed pixels a go.
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that was also only running at 50% brightness
 
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