But oh the possiblities for next year already !!!

I’ll be watching the progress and waiting for sale announments.

I’ve also designed the board so, it can do double duty as a power injection point. Same PCB, just a lot of parts left off. This will allow you to chain together up to 170 pixels from a single DMX universe. You’ll need one controller and three power injectors. I’ll draw a picture soon.

Also, i’ve put some of these pixels inside a 20mm clear plastic tube. It becomes controllable rope light! i need to figure a way however to keep all the pixels lined up the same way. (cable ties) This will be really useful for me, as i want to install them outdoors.

I’ll be installing 1200 of these in my own show this year, down-under in Wellington NZ.

I’m just back from a week’s holiday, and am quite excited to get moving on this project again.

WIthin a couple weeks we’ll probably be running a batch of 3-6K pieces. 2/3 have been spoken for already, the remainder are ‘on spec.’ So scale is no problem at all. The parts come in reels of 1,500 pieces, so it makes most sense to fabricate in that multiple.

The controller is nearly finished. Gist of it is that it will accept any voltage input from 15-50V, AC or DC. There’s a DIP switch for setting the system’s start address, plus some diagnostic LEDs. Power and data connections are via screw terminals, and we’ll also offer ‘pigtails’ for XLR5, XLR4 (power + data, color-scroller style), XLR3, etc. Each controller is designed to drive about 40 pixels. There are cat5 jacks on-board for directly connecting the pixel string.

If the firmware ends up running as planned, there will be two drive modes: “Straight Through,” where DMX data is copied 1:1 to the pixels, and ‘Effects Engine,” where 1-5 DMX channels can be used to drive an entire string in various patterns, colors and speeds.

Mate, absolutely blown away by this latest version of your RGB pixel project, that’s perhaps the cleanest design that I’ve ever seen,
CAT 5 – BRILLIANT!

so brilliant in fact, i was wondering if you would be selling them at a later date on a sizeable scale, as my mind has wondered into the domain of a 108×62 16:9 Pixel Wall in a performance space i get to play in…
and to use 36 of these in 12x40cm round paper lanterns (3 in each) to suspend from the grid in said space…
even @ AU$6ea that’s amazingly cheap..

I’m very interested to see your idea’s for the controller..

keep up the absolutely amazing work!

Adro!

The second footprint is standard 2×3 on .1″ spacing, and the jacks are set close enough to the edge of the board that right angle connectors can be used if desired. Molex, et al, have stacks and stacks of styles to choose from, including a couple which boast waterproof connections courtesy of a silicone gasket on the female plug.

A further step for permanent installations / fixed length strings would be to wire the boards together, then run the whole assembly through an ‘overmolding’ injection mold process. This way, everything is sealed and weatherproof.

RE: selling all or part of the sample batch…

Probably, but not for a few more weeks.

50 pieces have been shipped to a co-developer. My remaining 50 are being reworked locally to allow further testing, video shooting and the like.

The gritty details of the head-end controller are still being sussed out – it’s probably another few weeks before we’ll have production circuit boards on the bench.

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(are you going to sell off any of the “LED REVERSED” units?) “:o)