The Technocolour Dreamcoat, v3.0-release After putting in a whole lot of work (roughly 2h/panel × 8) over late winter/spring sewing another ~700 pixels, plus re-numbering and re-wiring everything, I finally finished the Technocolour Dreamcoat hardware a couple of months ago. With the deadline of the first festival of the summer season looming, I then sat down to the part I dreaded most: (re-) mapping all 1400 pixels in the PixelBlaze software. Theoretically the pixels are laid out in an (iso...| Frabjous Dei
The Technocolour Dreamcoat 3.0 beta After ten years of faithful service, the Technocolour Dreamcoat 2.0 finally kicked the bucket. The silicone potting over the LED strips hardens over time and when the strip bends, the hardened silicone grips the LED chips and lifts them off the copper substrate. I replaced one glitchy strip and then identified the same problem in the neighbouring one, at which point I worked out was going on and realised it was futile. So it was time to think about a redesi...| Frabjous Dei