I can't wait to try this! 🎉 I've been turning my house into a Gingerbread House for 5 years now using double sided carpet tape. This may be the solution to all of my anxiety everytime the wind picks up in south Texas! Thank you for posting this.
Steve - your timing on this video couldn't have been more perfect! I was literally staring at the ceiling last night contemplating how I was going to handle my new flakes that I ordered. As always, THANK YOU!
Do you have any videos on how you make your frames and attach them for window outlines. You seem to do things nice and clean so it would be interesting to see how you do this.
@mcb0b1, thanks for the compliment! I am working on videos for the window frames. It may be broken up into two parts given the current length. Stay tuned!
I’ve been watching your videos here lately and it makes me want to learn more about it and possibly try something small. Any tips or recommendations on what would be budget friendly and easy to do if I were just wanting to do lights around my house? Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Check out the video resources at xlights.org. There’s a number of really good beginner/introductory videos on the pieces to put together some blinky. There are some wireless based small controllers that I believe are inexpensive and can be used with small power supplies and small numbers of pixels. If you want a small scale setup, a Falcon PiHat and a Raspberry Pi is a good option for 2 outputs to run some pixels around the house. That setup with one power supply can go into a small box and run sequences directly on the Pi with FPP software running on the Pi.
@jerseyjeff2915 yeah, I did kind of cover that quickly. Cutting the PVC and drilling a hole is pretty straight forward. As for drilling holes in the rear part of the coro, you want to be sure the two holes made hit on opposite sides of at least one of the internal coro ribs. If it works to go have two ribs between the holes you make, that would be even better. To prevent drilling through the front of the coro, drill the two holes straight. Then angle the drill bit and go through the rib(s) at an angle. If you pre-curl the zip tie with your hands, it’ll make feeding the zip tie through the two holes and the rib(s) easier. It takes a little finesse to get the zip tie through, but it will go through. Last little tip is to get good solid 7” zip ties. They don’t have to be on super tight, just snug enough to keep the 2.5” piece of PVC generally in position. A little movement or slack is ok. Hopefully this narrative helps. Good luck!
Steve - great video! I've been struggling with how to attach props to my brick house. Two questions: 1. What are you attaching the fishing wire to on the back of the prop? 2. For heavier props that I want to attach to the house do you think the hooks you recommended will support the weight?
@Levinesm2007, so glad to hear that the video was so helpful for you. For the fishing line, I just found a place to run the line through an opening of the Coro. No holes were drilled top run those lines. If you noticed, I doubled up the fishing line as well to give it a little more strength. If the prop is really heavy, I'm not sure it would hold on brick. If it's that large, I recommend biting the bullet and drilling into your mortar joints and insert plastic anchor with a metal screw. I've done that at the church, attaching C clips to the brick mortar and then popping 1/2" PVC across the C clips. So, for larger props, I attached PVC to the back of the Coro prop (with a horizontal PVC bar running across the back). I used the same Zip tie approach to attach the PVC frame to the back of the Coro prop. Then the prop gets popped into the C clip. For the large props, I made 2 standoffs for the lower part of the prop and hot glued those to the building. I'll try to make a video of how that is done when I set up the church show this year. Hope this helps.
I can't wait to try this! 🎉 I've been turning my house into a Gingerbread House for 5 years now using double sided carpet tape. This may be the solution to all of my anxiety everytime the wind picks up in south Texas! Thank you for posting this.
Good luck and let me know how it goes!
Steve - your timing on this video couldn't have been more perfect! I was literally staring at the ceiling last night contemplating how I was going to handle my new flakes that I ordered. As always, THANK YOU!
Glad I could help and best of luck with your snowflakes!
as always, awesome content. Thanks so much for making them! Getting my show ready for this season and this is perfect timing
Do you have any videos on how you make your frames and attach them for window outlines. You seem to do things nice and clean so it would be interesting to see how you do this.
@mcb0b1, thanks for the compliment!
I am working on videos for the window frames. It may be broken up into two parts given the current length. Stay tuned!
I’ve been watching your videos here lately and it makes me want to learn more about it and possibly try something small. Any tips or recommendations on what would be budget friendly and easy to do if I were just wanting to do lights around my house? Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Check out the video resources at xlights.org. There’s a number of really good beginner/introductory videos on the pieces to put together some blinky.
There are some wireless based small controllers that I believe are inexpensive and can be used with small power supplies and small numbers of pixels.
If you want a small scale setup, a Falcon PiHat and a Raspberry Pi is a good option for 2 outputs to run some pixels around the house. That setup with one power supply can go into a small box and run sequences directly on the Pi with FPP software running on the Pi.
Wish you gave a little more insight on zip tie to the 2.5” tube section.
@jerseyjeff2915 yeah, I did kind of cover that quickly. Cutting the PVC and drilling a hole is pretty straight forward.
As for drilling holes in the rear part of the coro, you want to be sure the two holes made hit on opposite sides of at least one of the internal coro ribs. If it works to go have two ribs between the holes you make, that would be even better.
To prevent drilling through the front of the coro, drill the two holes straight. Then angle the drill bit and go through the rib(s) at an angle.
If you pre-curl the zip tie with your hands, it’ll make feeding the zip tie through the two holes and the rib(s) easier. It takes a little finesse to get the zip tie through, but it will go through.
Last little tip is to get good solid 7” zip ties. They don’t have to be on super tight, just snug enough to keep the 2.5” piece of PVC generally in position. A little movement or slack is ok.
Hopefully this narrative helps. Good luck!
Steve - great video! I've been struggling with how to attach props to my brick house. Two questions: 1. What are you attaching the fishing wire to on the back of the prop? 2. For heavier props that I want to attach to the house do you think the hooks you recommended will support the weight?
@Levinesm2007, so glad to hear that the video was so helpful for you.
For the fishing line, I just found a place to run the line through an opening of the Coro. No holes were drilled top run those lines. If you noticed, I doubled up the fishing line as well to give it a little more strength.
If the prop is really heavy, I'm not sure it would hold on brick. If it's that large, I recommend biting the bullet and drilling into your mortar joints and insert plastic anchor with a metal screw. I've done that at the church, attaching C clips to the brick mortar and then popping 1/2" PVC across the C clips. So, for larger props, I attached PVC to the back of the Coro prop (with a horizontal PVC bar running across the back).
I used the same Zip tie approach to attach the PVC frame to the back of the Coro prop. Then the prop gets popped into the C clip.
For the large props, I made 2 standoffs for the lower part of the prop and hot glued those to the building. I'll try to make a video of how that is done when I set up the church show this year.
Hope this helps.
Where do you get your bullet pixels
@brianhaney3613 the pixels in my show were purchased back in 2017, from DIYLedExpress. Now there are many other vendors selling high quality pixels.