Last seen: Aug 24, 2026
That's a great catch. We have been fighting that issue. And your description makes perfect sense. Thank you for documenting this here. - Mark
I liked your idea so much I purchased a runway light off of Ebay. I sand blasted and painted it. I added an ESP32 micro-controller (not RPi) and wrote...
Ambitious map, but very worthwhile. Adding Alaska and Hawaii is a great idea. You don't see too many maps with these 2 states included. A leather ho...
Hmm, looks like you found a bug. I'll have to check this out. In the meantime, open 'config.py' and change line 86 (I believe) to; wind_numorarrow =...
I like the idea. For now, there won't be any changes. But if version 5 sees the light of day, I'll try to add that feature. I'm keeping a list of such...
Perfect. Thank you for that information. - Mark
Wow Steve, that's great information. I've never run into those locator strips. That will be very helpful. Are the custom length strings available t...
I'm sorry, I wish I could be of help with this. But you have ventured far from my knowledge base. I appreciate you continuing updating your progress h...
Nick, Theoretically you can connect all 500 end for end and assuming you have a power supply capable of providing the needed wattage, all will work. I...
Nick, that's a tough call. The great thing about Marty's approach is it turns out quite clean. However that comes at a price. Using LED strings would ...
Good deal. Let me know if I can help. Send a few pics when its done. - Mark
The test script is a loop setup to run through the LED's 10 times (I believe its 10 times). You should be able to just wait and it will finish itself ...
Shawn, I'm not exactly sure I understand. So let me describe what I think you are trying to do and you clarify as necessary. You want use a grass ru...
Rob, your map turned out great! Post a picture when you get it framed and hung. Thanks - Mark
That's a great looking map. At this point I would just reconnect the monitor and keyboard and at the cmd line enter; sudo raspi-config Select 'Sy...