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Offline smeighan

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New Display Element, Spiral NorthPoles
« on: August 01, 2014, »
2014 PROJECT, Spiral North Poles
Dave Pitts and I are making 20 each of the Coroplast  Pixel Spiral North Pole display elements that Ben (HelenaGuy) created. The method of making them is described here
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Ben made 7, dpitts and myself will make 40. First we need to cutout 440 4" disks from plywood and drill a 1 1/2" hole in each.
it takes 11 disks per pole
440 4" disks
440 1 1/2" holes added into each disk

cut 9 of the 11 disks in half and then glue to a 36"  long 1" PVC pipe

Each pole uses 48 pixels from the 150 pixel ws2811 12v flex strip. you get 3 poles per 5m strip. So we need 14 ws2811 flex strips, each cut into thirds.

I dont like plywood to be bare in my display elements so i am dipping them in KillZ primer.

Now you get the title, doughnuts for our light display.


2013 PROJECT, Yard Borders
Last year I made 200' of yard borders using the method that dave pitts designed and richm refined.
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2012 PROJECT, 9' Nutcrackers
3 years ago my big project was two 9' tall Nutcrackers made from Home depot supplies.
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When I get time, i am also working Papgayo, Single Strand, Custom Models, Bugs for xLights/Nutcracker

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Sean
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Re: New Display Element, Spiral NorthPoles
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, »
Pretty neat, they look good.

(looking forward to those single strand updates!)
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New Display Element, Spiral NorthPoles
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2014, »
dave and i continue on our project of making 40 Northpoles out of plywood and coroplast.

i needed to cut 120 4" squares of 1/2" osb
440 squares of 1/4" plywood.

This is what that looks like


Since i need to cut the squares into 4" circles with a 1 1/2" hole in the middle, it gave me an excuse to get a band saw.
Ha! I just needed an excuse. Saw was on sale for $136. It works very well. 16" blade.
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work progresses

sean
« Last Edit: August 07, 2014, by smeighan »
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