Hi Everyone.
Well in 2016 I joined with good intentions but found it all a bit overwhelming with all the info so I concentrated on my regular display a bit, and got side tracked with 3D printing and a computer business! lol. So the business is finished, and I have a regular job again, and now I've got a little more time, and my family are on board with the having a "crazy" display for next year, I'm back. And it's going to get real!
I've re-read the manual back to front, probably still have questions, but will save most of them for later. I've also watched a lot of youtube videos of people explaining things, and how to set things up, and peoples displays for inspiration.
My thoughts are that I want to fix permanent strips like I saw a guy "The Hook Up" on youtube here
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiqrnRiqpk
. I think what he used was this stuff https://www.amazon.com.au/Aluminum-Channel-LightingWill-Surface-Section/dp/B077W58224 but I'm not sure how it will go with the sun we get here in Queensland? Has anyone used it? Is there anywhere in Australia that sells this stuff (apart from amazon). I will be doing the display on my father in laws house (I have too many trees blocking the front of mine), so it I can make it look nice we can use it for haloween, and parties and stuff.
My main thoughts are to organise what I need, and order what I can now (getting in early), so I can mount the strips in the cooler months, ready for Christmas), and mess around with it all and take my time getting the elements right that I want to achieve.
This year I'm going to try for lights on the house, which I was thinking 5v strip lights, under the gutter area, and this house has three triangular roof areas that would look nice lit up. In the triangular sections I will put some some stars or similar in the middle of the triangle parts that can be animated. I also would like a mega tree (thinking 12V pixels for that ?!?). I think that will give me enough to have a display that people can watch and I can run to music. Thinking E1.31 at the moment, run it all on a Pi or similar? Then the following year I can add and add and make it bigger each year.
Can you buy a mega tree kit in Australia? I've only found sites in the US so far.
What do you think? Any thoughts on the above? If anyone does this on the Sunshine Coast, please say hi I would love to chat or meet up.
Well in 2016 I joined with good intentions but found it all a bit overwhelming with all the info so I concentrated on my regular display a bit, and got side tracked with 3D printing and a computer business! lol. So the business is finished, and I have a regular job again, and now I've got a little more time, and my family are on board with the having a "crazy" display for next year, I'm back. And it's going to get real!
I've re-read the manual back to front, probably still have questions, but will save most of them for later. I've also watched a lot of youtube videos of people explaining things, and how to set things up, and peoples displays for inspiration.
My thoughts are that I want to fix permanent strips like I saw a guy "The Hook Up" on youtube here
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiqrnRiqpk
. I think what he used was this stuff https://www.amazon.com.au/Aluminum-Channel-LightingWill-Surface-Section/dp/B077W58224 but I'm not sure how it will go with the sun we get here in Queensland? Has anyone used it? Is there anywhere in Australia that sells this stuff (apart from amazon). I will be doing the display on my father in laws house (I have too many trees blocking the front of mine), so it I can make it look nice we can use it for haloween, and parties and stuff.
My main thoughts are to organise what I need, and order what I can now (getting in early), so I can mount the strips in the cooler months, ready for Christmas), and mess around with it all and take my time getting the elements right that I want to achieve.
This year I'm going to try for lights on the house, which I was thinking 5v strip lights, under the gutter area, and this house has three triangular roof areas that would look nice lit up. In the triangular sections I will put some some stars or similar in the middle of the triangle parts that can be animated. I also would like a mega tree (thinking 12V pixels for that ?!?). I think that will give me enough to have a display that people can watch and I can run to music. Thinking E1.31 at the moment, run it all on a Pi or similar? Then the following year I can add and add and make it bigger each year.
Can you buy a mega tree kit in Australia? I've only found sites in the US so far.
What do you think? Any thoughts on the above? If anyone does this on the Sunshine Coast, please say hi I would love to chat or meet up.
