bob_moody Posted August 8, 2013 Posted August 8, 2013 Some of you may recall that last Christmas (on Christmas day for that matter) a 75MPH wind gust took out our Merry Christmas sign that was on the roof. Sandra (also celebrating her birthday that day..) was NOT amused and proclaimed the roof to be off-limits to decorations... I say that with humor... it really scared her to have that big sign come sailing off the roof... Enter Merrry Christmas Sign 2.0..... The MC sign was a beloved part of our display and always recevied a lot of comments. It was simple yet it was always a focal point (probably becasue of its size)... We redesigned it from the ground up. It sports a new frame, mounts on the ground and instead of using C9's to make the dots of each letter we moved to 30mm pixels... As with all of our projects, we try to document the process. So here is a short "test" video of the sign. The test was put together in about 5 mins using LOR SE (I dont have enough license yet to create and export anything from SS). There are more details on the build in the How-To on our website:http://moodychristmas.weebly.com/merry-christmas-sign.html The how-to is still a work in progress...The video can be seen from either the BLOG tab on the site or here on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/71710334 Thanks for looking and as always comments (good and bad) are welcomed. Bob and Sandra
bob_moody Posted August 8, 2013 Author Posted August 8, 2013 Thanks Doug ..It was certainly a Labor of designLabor of solderingLabor of manufacturingLabor of solderingLabor of $$$$Labor of solderingLabor of sequencingLabor of soldering You get the picture .. LOL .. A labor of love...
Orville Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Beautiful sign Bob! Wish I had the $$$ and talent to create such a fantastic sign.
sysco Posted August 9, 2013 Posted August 9, 2013 Really nice can you give a link to where you got the pixels at and how many on each letter thank you
bob_moody Posted August 9, 2013 Author Posted August 9, 2013 Really nice can you give a link to where you got the pixels at and how many on each letter thank youWould be happy to .. I bought them from Ray Wu. The link to the pixels are here:http://www.aliexpress.com/item/20pcs-3leds-rgb-pixel-led-module-WS2811-IC-milky-cover-DC12V-30mm-diameter/866369222.html The specs on the signTotal Pixels = 219 Each letter is based on a 5x7 dot matrixLetters = M E R R Y C H R I S T M A SPixels = 17 18 18 18 9 13 17 18 15 15 11 17 18 15 Bob
rednosetbird Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 looks great! I think ill have to look into ad do a bit of research on the subject matter.
james campbell Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 great looking sign.that would look great as a fm tune to sign as well.
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