There Ain't No Sanity Clause
Well, I ve done it. I ve run a sequence at 100FPS. (And I m pretty sure nobody will notice. Sometimes you just do stuff. For reasons.) Last Year Last year, I wasn t happy with how the whole house effects looked; they just weren t smooth. This point was driven home when we went to see the [ ]
Been a quiet year here at Merry on Cherry, without a whole lot of time for new things. P5 Panel The big addition for the year is a P5 panel to replace my pixel strip matrix. I got the custom prebuilt modules via Your Pixel Store. It s 8 10 panels overall, so I thought having it [ ]
My show is like a crummy commercial for vendors. Without the sequences from vendors and individuals, all I would have is a lifeless mess of tangled cables and plastic cardboard. Christmas/December 2024 Generally, there is less Santa / Christmas music after Dec 25. Plenty of songs about snow, princesses/princes, and miscellaneous tunes. The Christmas stuff [ ]
As I mentioned in other recent posts, I’m trying to diversify the look of my show a bit from bullet pixels in coro. As part of that effort, I decided to try my hand at a few custom designs for seed pixels in HDPE. Here you will find a few build / end result photos, [ ]
I m always looking for things to add to my show that aren t just more bullets in coro . While they do have bullets in coro, the Boscoyo P5 MegaChromaStone also has a P5 panel, which can be used for matrix effects at 64 32, which is enough to be interesting compared to tombstones with bullet matrixes. So, [ ]
While you wouldn t know it from most of the stuff in my light show, I have gotten rather tired of the bullet nodes in coro look and am interested in branching out whenever I can. Thus, the Boscoyo ChromaGlow TombStones caught my eye. (Yes, technically these stones are just bullets in coro. However, with the [ ]
My show is like a crummy commercial for vendors. Without the sequences from vendors and individuals, all I would have is a lifeless mess of tangled cables and plastic cardboard. Veterans Day 2023 This was a short loop run only on one day (11/11/2023). Song Artist Sequencer God Bless the USA and Armed Forces Medley [ ]
[Update 2024: EZRGB asked me about including this in EZSequence, and I said it s open source so of course. Also, it sounds like a great idea to help other people enjoy these products. I think they got it, or used the tool to generate effects the wands are working in their free xLights Around The [ ]
What do you do if you have the perfect spot for a matrix, and you know the resolution you want, but this leads to a pixel spacing (say 1.25 or 1.4 ) that is not widely available? White hristma In my first year, I decided I wanted to put a matrix over the upstairs double-wide window [ ]
Update April 10, 2023: These were shipped in xLights 2023.06. Update March 28, 2023: After discussion with other developers, the word elide has been changed to suppress . Introduction I am easily dazzled and mesmerized by spinner-like props anything with rotational symmetry. While the crowds only seem to care about singing faces and whole house effects, [ ]