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Bill.b

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Posted: 04:15am 06 Dec 2023
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Hi all.  My Christmas lights for this year.

2023 Lights

Most of the LED strip  lights are controlled by Picomites. The tall tree has 8 strips of 130 WS2812 LEDs, The waterfall star in the gum tree has 6 strip of 240 WS2812 LEDS and the front arches has 4 strip of 150 WS2812 LEDs each individual strip is controlled by a separate bitbbang ws2912 commands.

The control circuits for the carnival use Picaxe chips.

If anyone is interested I can post the code I have used.

Bill
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OA47

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Posted: 04:32am 06 Dec 2023
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Bill that is amazing, they just get better year after year.
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Posted: 04:43am 06 Dec 2023
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Excellent.    
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LeoNicolas

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Posted: 05:02am 06 Dec 2023
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Pretty nice Bill. Thank you for sharing the video with us.
 
PeteCotton

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Posted: 05:09am 06 Dec 2023
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing
 
Revlac

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Thats great Bill, thanks for sharing.
Have to ask, what size Railway is that?
Cheers Aaron
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Nice. So sparkly! Christmas time and shorts seems odd to a Canadian. ;-)

How do you get power (and data?) through the various rotating axes?
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Bill.b

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Posted: 05:40am 06 Dec 2023
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  Quote  Aaron Asked  what size Railway is that?


I have not a clue.  Just one of the Christmas train sets for around the Christmas tree.
I 3D printed several carrages.
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bigmik

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Excellent work Bill,

I can only dream of doing something like that

I hope Santa brings you a nice toy for being a good boy

Regards,

Mick
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Mixtel90

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Excellent work, Bill. The final result is beautiful. :)
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  Bill.b said  Hi all.  My Christmas lights for this year.

2023 Lights

Most of the LED strip  lights are controlled by Picomites. The tall tree has 8 strips of 130 WS2812 LEDs, The waterfall star in the gum tree has 6 strip of 240 WS2812 LEDS and the front arches has 4 strip of 150 WS2812 LEDs each individual strip is controlled by a separate bitbbang ws2912 commands.

The control circuits for the carnival use Picaxe chips.

If anyone is interested I can post the code I have used.

Bill


great as always      

my big christmas star is still alive (posted here a few years ago)
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Colin Ames
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Posted: 03:24pm 06 Dec 2023
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Outstanding!
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Mixtel90

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Hi Colin, and welcome to the 'shed. :)

This is a coincidence. You share the same name as my youngest brother, here in the UK. :)
Mick

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Bill.b

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Posted: 12:58am 07 Dec 2023
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How do you get power (and data?) through the various rotating axes?


Hi vegipete,

I use a simple slipring and carbon brushes.  Generally I use a piece of blank printed circuit board  on the rotation section.  On some unites where data is transferred I scribe several sections on the disc and use serval brushes. The data is generally ON/OFF Bits.

This is the underside of the cup rides rotor. The outer side if the disk is +12V the shaft is the negative and the inner disk is the control bit to start and stop the motor.
the two pic32mx 170 boards have been replaced with picomites to drive the LEDs.



Bill
Edited 2023-12-07 11:16 by Bill.b
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lizby
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Thanks for showing us the underside of your brilliant handiwork. Outstanding.
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javavi

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Option ANGLE DEGREES
FRAMEBUFFER CREATE
FRAMEBUFFER WRITE F
RX=MM.HRes: RY=MM.VRes: CX=RX/2: CY=RY/2
Umin=-180: Umax=180: Ustep=15
Vmin= -90: Vmax= 90: Vstep=15
SCALE=CY-CY/10

Do
 For S=0 To 12 Step 3
 CLS
   For V= Vmin To Vmax Step Vstep
   For U= Umin To Umax Step Ustep
     U=U+S
       X=Cos(U)*Cos(V)
       Y=Sin(U)*Cos(V)
       Z=Sin(V)
     U=U-S
     C=Rnd*&hFFFFFF
     Plot_XY
     If Inkey$ <> "" Then End
   Next U: Next V
   FRAMEBUFFER COPY F,N,B
 Next S
Loop

Sub Plot_XY
 X=SCALE*X: Y=SCALE*Y: Z=SCALE*Z
 Y=Y/4
 X1=X-Y+CX: Y1=Z-Y+CY
 If y<0 Then
   Circle X1,Y1,2,,,C,C
 Else
   Pixel X1,Y1
 EndIf
End Sub
 
Colin Ames
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  Mixtel90 said  Hi Colin, and welcome to the 'shed. :)

This is a coincidence. You share the same name as my youngest brother, here in the UK. :)

Thanks.
Also a coincidence is that I am also from the UK, Coventry to be precise. Lived there from 1950 until 1988, when I moved to the US.
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bigmik

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Hi Bill,

I see you are using a few of my MuPs PCBs there!

I am flattered.

Regards,

Mick
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Bill.b

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Posted: 02:20am 08 Dec 2023
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Hi Mick

That photo is approx 2 years old. The Mups have been replaced with picomites in the current version of the cup ride.

Bill
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