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[QUOTE="brando, post: 124773, member: 36246"] I won't bother answering too technical because I'm a noob myself and planning my first display this year. But what I found handy was getting myself a controller and a couple strings on pixels. I personally learn best when I'm reading (ie. the 101) and doing at the same time. The He123 needs the BeagleBone to run, so negates the use of the PC to run your show. But you can at least get your hands on one right now from [USER=543]@AAH[/USER] Once you've got those things, you can play around, I personally got a few hundred pixels and made a few quick knock up coro matrixes and different things to play with both the lights, running multiple strings and needing power injection, as well as learning the show planning side of things. Doing that then lead to me having a better idea of what I wanted to do to my house, plan that out, and then that gives me 11 months to build different things, source different props and components. I get very time poor through the year, so I've spent most of my spare time playing with different things over Xmas-New Year and was even drilling and painting conduit this afternoon. The guy at Bunnings thought I was a complete weirdo when I told him I was buying stuff for my Xmas lights in January, but I know I'll get to a point where I don't have any time for weeks or months and time will quickly get away from me. At least this way I can get my head around it, get a few orders through AliExpress and really put it all together come November. My current plan has 7,040 pixels, so I'll probably order them over a few orders of a couple thousand at a time and get the props and other bits and pieces I need around that, and in the meantime do some of my own sequences as well as download some I want to add to/change. [/QUOTE]
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