mini-pixel tree

nzlongfellow

Dennis from NZ
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sck1ng said:
So I decided that my mini-pixel trees were not the best for Halloween so instead of putting them away for a few weeks, I gave them a little dress up ;)

Plastic party table covers over some acrylic light covers from Home Depot and just put them over the current trees I have completed.. Now when Halloween is over I just have to pull off the cover :)


Hi sck1ng looking at doing the same with my 24 trees. I've got balloons for the heads. What did you use?
 

nzlongfellow

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sck1ng

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Inspired by plasmadrive I am in the process of redoing my trees from a spiral to straight pixels like a mega tree.. Gives me more flexibility in sequencing.. I used the same wire frames and used a strip from 1/2" wire fencing and put them pixels in them to maintain spacing and stability. Got one almost done as I want to add a star to the top of it but I need to do some resoldering.

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Jamie

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Nice job.. Look very neat. Should be able to a lot more with them now..
 

sck1ng

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Got 4 of these done.. Think I may have some loose wires in the stars.. They came wired weird from Ray so I cut the wires and put them back together with butt connectors but I guess I should go back and redo them..

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https://vimeo.com/112023424
 

sck1ng

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Well I had to redo the stars several times as I kept having data corruption for some reason. So I removed the guts of the stars and put 3 pixels in it. Not as bright but no data issues.. Looks better in person than in pictures or video..

Here is the star being redone

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And here is the video

https://vimeo.com/112983160

Putting them on the lawn tomorrow morning and starting my final setup. Hope to be live by Sunday!
 
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