[Icicles] In this tutorial, I’ll be making addressable icicles using KnowShine data return lights mounted to custom PCBs. I designed the PCBs to either plug in RJ9 modular (phone) connectors or to solder the wires directly to the board. Simply crimping RJ9 connectors to the wires is fa…

Nice work. Now add a lil hot glue to waterproof the solder connections :wink: Here is another idea. You could put the pcb strip in this and I wowuld think it would shield the rain enough to keep things dry. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Barrette-Outdoor-Living-1-02-in-x-1-379-in-x-59-5-in-White-Vinyl…

Perfect solution! Could you show “gap file” is a JSON formatted? ledmap.json works for me, but doesn’t work with “gap file”. I’m making a mistake somewhere. It doesn’t load at all.

I like the liquid electrical tape because it dries much faster than silicone (and I’m impatient). It would fit in 1/2" trim. But with 1" trim, you could fit the strip and still have enough room to clip and screw it to the fascia board from inside the channel.

Here’s my gap file with places where you’re likely to make a mistake: a comma at the end of each row no trailing comma on the last row file ANSI encoded If you upload using the control built into AC 2D Configuration page, it automatically renames the file “2d-gaps.json” but if you manually upload…

Thanks for the tip. It turns out that the file contains only what is in square brackets? I added “{” “}”.

Correct, just the array in the square brackets.

Is it correct to bracket like this? { [1,1,1,1,1,…1,1,1,1,1, 1,1,-1,1,1…-1,1,1,1, …, 1,-1,-1,1,-1,…-1,1,-1,-1,1] }

No. That is not valid JSON. When you have curly brackets, you’re saying you have a dictionary and it would expect attribute names and values. Lose the curly brackets and it will work.

Does anybody know of a supplier in the UK? We seem to lag behind when it comes to decorating our houses with festive lights Alan

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For those asking where you can get the PCBs, I posted the Gerber files in the Modular Matrix thread.

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