DiyLightAnimation
Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: magic8192 on May 16, 2009,
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I have all the pieces working and I was watching my lights flash last night. What a great feeling to finally see something. I was only flashing 1 channel because my cords haven't come in yet, but that was enough for now.
I was playing around with Vixen last night and imaging what I was going to see this Christmas and it is going to be great fun!
Thanks for all the help so far!! Lots more work to do ;D
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ALRIGHT! Glad to see another successful builder! What were you blinking with (express,FS,SSR4) ? I think I just mailed some Expresses to you.
RJ
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Lynx Express 3.0
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ALRIGHT! Glad to see another successful builder! What were you blinking with (express,FS,SSR4) ? I think I just mailed some Expresses to you.
RJ
You did just email some expresses to me. I will have 160 channels, 10 LE, this year by the time I get all the boards.
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Congrats
Bill
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Greetings,,,
Congrats on Blinky and Flashy...
Keith
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After Christmas, I shopped for lights and went everywhere getting lights, I have learned to solder and learned about electrical terms that I had no idea about and have been building weird contraptions from PVC. People look at it and think I am crazy.
My wife rolls her eyes when I talk about Christmas lights, but seeing things start to come together even had her excited about it.
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Congratulations.
That first Blinky is very exciting. It only gets better and more addicting from there.
I am trying to convince my wife to get rid of cable TV because I don’t have time to watch TV any more. Blinky is so much more fun.
Now stop playing and get back to soldering. LOL
Jeff
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Congratulations, the first blinky flash is always great!
Ron
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Congratulation! The first bling is always fun and exciting, just wait till you get them all working.
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Ten LE's is an ambitious beginning mr magic!
Congrats!
John
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Ten LE's is an ambitious beginning mr magic!
Congrats!
John
I have been thinking about it for a long while and I have wanted to do this for several years now. Something has always gotten in the way. I saw my first real blinky flashy display in person in Nov 2008. I stood there with my jaw open and the hair standing up on my arms and the back of my neck.
Without the help of you guys and Planet Christmas, this wouldn't be possible......... Go big or go home. ;D
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Go big or go home. ;D
My thoughts on it also!!!!
RJ
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How about "Go BIG at Home" ;D
Greg
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How about "Go BIG at Home" ;D
Greg
;D That is it. I have decided that my show this year only has 2 possible outcomes. It will be a brilliant success or a miserable failure. No real middle ground.
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How about "Go BIG at Home" ;D
Greg
;D That is it. I have decided that my show this year only has 2 possible outcomes. It will be a brilliant success or a miserable failure. No real middle ground.
Last year I thought my show was a miserable failure. I have high hopes for this year to be a brilliant success :D
Rick R.
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Last year I thought my show was a miserable failure. I have high hopes for this year to be a brilliant success :D
Rick R.
Yeah me too Rick, I told my wife before the season arrived either it'll look okay or extremely tacky and I wasn't sure which it would be. Turns out I was dead wrong as all the carloads of children singing along ultimately proved and many many people stopped by when I was tearing down afterward to say they really enjoyed it.
Still, I had a hard time accepting the praise and told most I'd try to do better next season. SO now I'm back to either it'll look okay or extremely tacky this coming season.... :-\
Greg
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You guys have me worried.
I am concerned that I am behind on my display. :-[
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You guys have me worried.
I am concerned that I am behind on my display. :-[
No worries
I am my biggest critic and I enjoy having fun at my own expense.
Last year I didn't have enough channels to do what I wanted so from that aspect it would never look good in my eyes. The neighbors and the kids seems to enjoy the show along with my family and the people that slowed their cars down to almost the speed limit (a major accomplishment in New Jersey LOL)
Have a plan, stick to it. Do lots of practice with the software, to get the effects you are looking for.
Cheers
Rick R.
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Have a plan, stick to it. Do lots of practice with the software, to get the effects you are looking for.
Cheers
Rick R.
Unless of course RJ comes up with something cool, then all bets are off and we just work like crazy to get the show looking good. See the Lynx Express last year, lol.
Ron
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You guys have me worried.
I am concerned that I am behind on my display. :-[
Have a plan, stick to it. Do lots of practice with the software, to get the effects you are looking for.
Cheers
Rick R.
I have a drawing of what my lights will look like, I have all the channels laid out in vixen and I have been working on the light sequence for my first song. I plan to have 4 songs this year. My biggest real issue that I have right now is power. I don't have that all sorted out yet.
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magic8192,
Last year was my first effort with computer controlled animation. I had no controllers until the first LE Coop late last year when I ordered 8 LEs which I received November 14th and then had to build. Fortunately everything came together. :)
Point being, I did all the planning and sequencing with no controllers just an Excel spreadsheet I made to track the projects, Vixen and its adjustable preview and astonishingly, the show pretty much looked just like the preview only much larger of course... Had to tweak some light intensities after the display was up but other than that everything worked exactly as imagined/planned and the scorched earth plan of shutting it off if it looked bad was averted.
So you're way ahead of where I was last year at this time. You'll do fine!
Greg