Cato [MOVED]Just got a spontaneous idea for a nice thing for #GPN22... let's see if this can become reality
I am committing to the idea. I ordered 50m of LED strip and a 600W power supply already. This is going to be cool :3
So far, already spent nearly 450€ on this project... this happens every time :D
But it's going to be good. Here's some of the parts involved 👀 (the train display in the back is not a part of it though)
Visited a friend yesterday to do some CNC routing on the front board :3 the result looks great, but I'm not gonna show it, I don't wanna spoil it just yet :>
Gonna laser-cut some more parts this evening, excited to see how it'll turn out. I also bought supplies yesterday for painting the thing, which I'm probably gonna start doing tomorrow.
Annoyed as fuck because I realised that the WS2811 LED strip has the possible cut points too far apart. Bought new 2812 strip now, which means I also need to use 5V instead of 12V so the entire 160€ worth of power supply and LED strip is now useless and I spent another 200€ on the new LED strips. Also fucking annoying that now I only have about two weeks from when the LED strip arrives to when I need to have it done
Fluffviech ™️
@cato watch out for the power consumption of the strip! 5v means way more amps through the same flex-pcb-trace... had strips which got dim, and at some point cremated themselves... -.-*
@Kamikazepinguin yeah no worries ^^