is0-mick Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Was going to do something like this a few years ago, but never got round to it due to life in general. Anyways, this year I decided I was going put some lights up, and this is how it turned out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1kPaiL5Q0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7-6rXIDy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAReZ6ASQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXxDd1nxNLM 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoponbaby Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Looks wicked, just need to make sure my mrs doesn't see it or she'll want it done!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 THATS how lights should be done tbh.......fed up of the tacky throw as many lights up approach and make it as cluttered as possible......I'd bother to look at the lights if they were all done with a bit of class like that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
is0-mick Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 (edited) Crazy thing.. its probably not that much more, or perhaps even cheaper to do this, than buying lights from the local B&Q etc.. The whole show (as of this afternoon) is now running on a raspberry PI (instead of my PC) and an bt home hub 5. Most of the items are controlled by 1 x ESP8266 (£4), except the big tree which I thought I'd use 2, so it updated a little faster. These are programmed with ESP Pixel Stick software (free and open source). The LED's themselves are £6-7 on ebay for a string of 50 (all individually controllable) and you can link 1,2,10 strings together etc. Power supplies ~£15 on ebay. I've used 2 on the whole display. The roof bar things, are just 32mm plastic waste pipe from B&Q with the LED's shoved inside, and the big star at the top of the house is just 2 lengths of white conduit cut into pieces, which is drilled with a countersink bit every 2" to make a hole for the LED's. The center is two 4 way conduit connection boxes bolted back to back. The singing tree I cnc'd some 3mm coro (sign board) plastic on my CNC, poked the LED's in. was £15 for a 8ft x 4ft sheet. FM transmitter which is also a USB sound card, £6 on ebay Software - Vixen 3 (free open source) Edited December 2, 2017 by is0-mick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dvd_guru Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 keep saying i am going to do this and i never do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
is0-mick Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 1 hour ago, the_dvd_guru said: keep saying i am going to do this and i never do Yep, did the same myself. Was about 6 year ago started building a dimmer controller, that was long before all these new fangled addressable LED's tho. They make the job SOOOOOO much easier now. you could easily knock up a show for about £40 with a couple of esp's and a few strings of LED's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utterchaos Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Any chance of links for the above equipment, leds, the controllers etc want to build something for this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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