What are you changing this year? Elements you are building or installing for 2023

[merryoncherry]

I know a GE flake D when I see one (or 4).

 

[Indigogyre]

Must say I quite like the look of those flakes. Where did they come from?

The 2 top ones are Gilbert Engineering Flake A, and the 4 lower ones are the GE Flake D.

 

[Pavle]

Finally got around to painting, pushing pixels and installing the first of 9 home made column matrix panels.

 

[108CAM]

My display will finally have an entrance and a surprise homemade decoration.
I will also be relocating certain items to make room for some other new additions.

 

[vk3heg]

Finally got around to painting, pushing pixels and installing the first of 9 home made column matrix panels.

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The ladders up the wrong way!

 

[Indigogyre]

Garage Day 3? 98% done. There are a few tweaks needed to make the flakes point out and a slight adjustment needed for the strings. I ran the lower 6 props from a single port and it's too much by the time it gets to the last spinner.

Second floor Day 1? Put the Snowflakes up and wired everything. Bad news is between Halloween and setup I lost a couple pixels in the window frames and 2 frames need to be fixed. I also did not manage to map the ports right and need to adjust that also.

 

[scamper]

What about mega tree strip? I’m using lots of it for fences. I’m making up some mounts to put every 1-2m to keep it from twisting.

I have actually come up with another solution.
I am putting pixels inside cable trays

 

[Indigogyre]

Garage Day 4? Made adjustments and things are working well. The garage is done and ready to go. Added the edge verticals and the lower 6 props this year.


Second Floor Day 3? Had to fix 3 windows frames that had pixels issues. Added HD Rosa Wreaths and 6 snowflakes and rearranged them.


Now to focus on the first floor and the yard.

 

[Skymaster]

The RGBW test pattern looks good on your windows!

 

[ryanschristmaslights]

How is everyone's setup going?

Today mine has gone backwards, due to having to take something down that developed a faulty pixel (it was WS2811 – too bad it didn't have data backup!). Hopefully it can be reinstalled tomorrow.

Oh, and I couldn't resist this cheeky test pic from earlier tonight with some local fireworks in the background .

 

[Indigogyre]

How is everyone's setup going?

Today mine has gone backwards, due to having to take something down that developed a faulty pixel (it was WS2811 – too bad it didn't have data backup!). Hopefully it can be reinstalled tomorrow.

Oh, and I couldn't resist this cheeky test pic from earlier tonight with some local fireworks in the background .
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It looks like a transformer blowing up behind the building.

 

[Iain]

How is everyone's setup going?

I can hardly believe everything I plugged in today is working. This being my first year I hadn’t even tested the 30m Ethernet cables nor differential boards… I’ve got about half my display up, but not all powered because I ran out of time to make cables. I’m very pleased with using extension cable to run long 5V wiring.

 

[crazymofo]

Happy with how my layout turned out this year, all my ideas have worked. I brought my whole viewing area forward to the fence line and it’s so much better. 3rd year, everything is new except for the 6 stars and one talking tree. I also made it my mission to not use zip ties (or very few) and i succeeded.

 

[Indigogyre]

Well, lately it has been all about setup and not so much about props. That has changed the last couple of days. One of my wish lists for this year was to double my Megatree from 1200 to 2400 pixels. Here are 20 of the 24 strands upgraded. Just need to finish the last 4 and everything will be good to go. Each strand went from 50 to 100 pixels.

 

[Whitey-]

When you say you doubled the strands @Indigogyre , did you cable tie or join in another way together two strands you'd already made, or did you cut fresh 100 long strips? If you joined, would love to see how!