Do It Yourself Christmas

Building a 28-panel WS2815 LED screen (8×32 pixels per panel = 7,168 pixels total, 4 rows × 7 columns) for an art installation. Controller is Falcon F16v5, using 7 outputs (one per column). Each column = 4 panels in serial data chain via JST connectors. 7-day continuous run, exhibition hours 10:00–20:00, Swiss Art Awards Basel, 16–21 June 2026.


Power archit...

These guys are taking things in the right direction . lasers seems to be the way of the future .

I've dreamed of being able to print metal parts . It just might become an affordable option .
Laser welding and pulse laser rust/paint removal are rapidly merging ,but still costly .

With FDM printers 5 axis is looking promising .

The future is looking ...

I tried to log into the site this morning and there was a database error.

Later on it said the site was being "upgraded"

Now it's back... and lots of recent content has vanished.


It seems every time some of us work to try to keep content flowing here, technology thwarts us. I had a thread that was at least 3 days old completely vanish. I don't kno...

We have a largish pond fountain that I use 4 DMX fixtures on. I have a DMX wire running back to shore, where I have an old LOR iDMX 1000 controller running it. That controller allows you to download simple LOR sequences into it and then runs standalone.

Works well enough, but a) it's ancient technology, and b) I have to go outside with a laptop, connect it up, and dump ...

Dusty ledtriks panel at the back of the garage, and I got to wondering if an ESP8266 (aka one of my goto WIFI microcontrollers) could be put in place of the TRIKS-C (or in my case PIX-C) boards. I was envisioning either a respin of the LTC.exe OR running a virtual serial port that converts the output from the LTC.EXE into udp (or TCP) messaging to the controller, which then acts...