Hello from Albury

[mpeacock]

Hi - been lurking and a member for a while now. Have a display, but nothing computerised. Would love to take it to the next level. Bought an arduino and pixel lights to experiment, but didn’t get there this year.

 

[keithsw1111]

While an arduino is fun to play with and maybe animate a single prop it is a hard slog if you are not technical and almost impossible to scale into a full show. If you really want to go cheap and cheerful things like NodeMCUs will be easier but also eventually limiting.

 

[mpeacock]

Thank Keith. I’m reasonably technical and certainly handy with soldering iron and dmm, but at the price of the arduino I was interested in trying a single prop, as you say. I’ll check out NodeMCU too.

 

[David_AVD]

Something else to consider for cheap pixel control is the wireless ESPixelStick. I have 3 in my display now and they are work well as long as you use Multicast and have a decent signal strength..

 

[mpeacock]

Thanks David - I’ll check them out.