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Back to the workbench
Well, I'm back to working on my NaMaLiCS [National Mall Light Control System] after letting it sit on the back burner for quite a while. The system is based on the Brickstuff Arduino shield…
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Testing the new SmartPixel boards
This is my tested setup for testing the two SmartPixel boards I have: This test was to see 1) the range of the 12C communications used to send control data to the boards 2) what changes were needed…
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What a difference a year makes!!
I'm changing my old NaMaLiCS code over from using the Brickstuff Arduino shield and Adafruit NeoPixel code to a new custom SmartPixel board. These test boards are directly accessible from the Arduino.…
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US Capitol from the Washington Monument Grounds
Catching up with photos I took last month for Bricks Cascade 2022. This is a shot of the entire 16 feet of National Mall with all the currently installed lights.…
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This OLED Video Player is incredible!
When I saw this, it was a had-to-have-now product. Got it in today's mail. It comes with the ferris wheel video, I added the bars & tone and static. Oh my...…
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Wiring the Capitol / Capitol for modular transport and setup
First, there are 150 lights all together in this portion of the National Mall. 72 of them are in the Capitol itself. When assembled, this is a little less that 3 ft. wide, a little more that 2 ft.…
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US Capitol Night Flyover
Special night tonight! I got a helicopter ride over the US Capitol Building. Sorry for the shaky video, but I *was* pretty pumped about it and the ride wasn't all that smooth.…
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The expanded Capitol Hill is 1/2 finished.
First, it was only *after* the picture was posted that I realized I had forgotten to turn on the lighting for the dome. So...unfortunately this image doesn't give you the full effect.…
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BTS look at lighting the Lincoln Memorial
#1 - Using two different types of lights from Brickstuff, pico lights on a panel (left) and a raw pico light on a wire (right). The panel lights face downward and are placed in the holes of a…
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Fully lit Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is finally lit how I want it. I have to laugh because of the number of lights (and associated wires and connectors) that have been stuffed inside.…
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Lighting advice #01
Since I'm in the middle of rebuilding Capitol Hill, I'm getting a second chance to make the build better. Here are a couple of the things I've learned since I created the first version.
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US Capitol at Night
It is almost finished, just a couple of tweaks needed. So, in the end was it worth it? Sadly, no. I didn't get the look I was trying to acheive. Is it better than a buying a lighting kit? Maybe.…
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Lighting building exteriors at microscale
I've been trying to figure how to do this for the past 1/2 year, and today I finally came up with a workable approach. Building at this scale (~1:300) most lighting solutions are far to large...…
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Lincoln Memorial at Night
Every thing you see here is LEGO except, lights by Brickstuff, gradient background and stars by Photoshop. It's two nighttime photos of the National Mall composited in Photoshop.
