Rockhampton Christmas Lights - after full pixel conversion

[jaredo]

Previous years I've been running between 12-14,000 std LED strings, decided to go all in and convert my display over to use pixels.

I must admit I got somewhat carried away during the conversion, I ended up putting in a lot more than I intended. But I wanted to fill/fit/keep the show at roughly the same size.

I ended up making everything modular, head and tail plugs on everything, MegaTree 2 piece collapsible center & the top-hat is removable.

Happy with the result though and heaps more versatile.
The show runs about 13 sequences, varied between carols, dubstep and rock (ACDC, queen)

I jumped on the FPP bandwagon also, the amount of work put into that system is insane. And it just works.
Vixen 3 also turned out to be great to use, had a few issues to begin with that were later patched and after that it never missed a beat and got the job done.

Display consists of:
4M high, 1053 Pixel MegaTree (24 x 42pix + 45pix star)
1064 Pixel Matrix (19*56)
36M of roof outline (360 pixels, 4M segments)
9 Reindeer (84pixels each)
1 Sleigh (100 pixels)
4 Arches (42px each)
7 Mini Trees (84pix each)
16 natural trees (42px each)
7 columns(21pix each)
1 TuneTo sign
40 (B/W) LED strings a acting as piano keys on the room (replacing with WS2811 stars in 2016) via 27ch Ray Wu DMX

 

[fasteddy]

pics look great and im sure its already a hit in your area

 

[tuppetsdad]

very nice - classy display 8)

 

[Jamie]

Nice work... Have a merry christmas..

 

[Bird]

That's a lot of very nice lighting

 

[jaredo]

Thanks guys. I look at the display and think it could be better some how haha. I really short changed myself with the garden lighting, still looks amazing but I need to up the density next year (probably to about 32 sets, so about 84px per tree).

I have some WS2811 10W floods (RobG's) for next year from a group buy on planetchrsitmas.

People view the show from about 60-70M away so the spacing of everything works well. The site is different to the in-town blocks of land most people have in the cities ect. We have about 6 arces behind the house and I think we can fit about 20 cars across the front on one side haha.

I will have videos eventually, been quite busy with random bugs and a freak storm blowing that megatree down

 

[dale82]

It looks amazing mate. Well done

 

[Bevo]

Looks cool from your photos cant wait for the videos

 

[jaredo]

For completeness sake videos of this the show.
I've been flat out the last few weeks and haven't been able to find time to post.

It's missing 12 Days of Christmas - Straight No Chaser. But that song makes good use of the matrix flashing up photos and doing lipsync.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyabEVEJbYzAddvw3hFe93tUkKXsvVVs