#Magilight vs pixelstick mod
#Magilight vs pixelstick plus

I tried to create specific shapes, and despite the import process being easy, the 'drawing' part isn’t. Sample product shot lit only with the Magilight Once you reboot your lightsaber, you’ll see that the force is with you! Joking aside, it’s amazing how effortless the process is, and you can make pretty much anything from a planet like shown above, to a blinking eye if you are shooting a time-lapse, or even a gradient to light your products when shooting still life. Create bitmaps - yes, it still exists - with the correct dimensions, and then save it to included microSD card. The other one, which is a bit more fun, is creating shapes, gradients, and drawing, or pictures with the LEDs. Its battery lasts up to eight hours, so even for video, it can do the trick if the 800 lumens it produces are bright enough for you.

Set whatever color you want your light to be, switch it on, and it’s light that you can rely on for long exposures at night, product photography, fill light for portrait photography, or anything else. The most straightforward use is as a color-adjustable continuous light. The Magilight can be used in different ways. And if you have big clumsy fingers, you may encounter some issues taking the card out. Also, the microSD slot is not covered and doesn’t give much confidence regarding water resistance, despite the announced IPX4 notation. It’s great once it’s on, but it’s kind of a pain to slide it on and then click it in place. The only downsides I’d have to bring up regarding the design and build quality is the diffusion cover. Your parents will still have to have AC power at least going from the house to the yard.Photo courtesy of Fotorgear – more similar samples available on their Indiegogo page if you provide external power to the ESPs then they will work fine on the SS24.Īnd you really only need one, to connect data from the house to the 1st Renard Controller and then you can daisy chain the rest.

#Magilight vs pixelstick mod

If you have the SS series controller you can still use them you just have to mod them to connect the SS boards, however I would advise against using the ESP boards on an SS24, the power available for the boards is right on the edge to power the ESPs.

#Magilight vs pixelstick plus

This board is designed to connect directly to the Renard Plus boards like the TR16 or TR24 and several others. The Manuel file:///C:/Users/Matth/Downloads/Renard_Plus_Wireless_SnapIn_v1.0.pdf has the mod for changing the output pin to allow using the latest firmware version or you can use the older firmware version by Bill Porter that does not need the mod. Is this just a different branch or something? Because I even saw renard reference in the files description for the firmwareĪctually for Renard boards you would want this one. If that is the case, what needs to change or be done, and can I use something like the wemos d1 mini board to achieve it? I have one of those controlling 600 pixels without an issue last year. Any thoughts? I've seen various references around, and someone had some kind of hack to get it going, but most people referenced they were able to do it using that firmware. The goal is pretty simply to bridge the vixen data to the renard, with the little wifi board standing in for an ethernet cable. I can't quite figure out what needs to be done to make this work. Visiting the firmware's webpage, there's even a section referencing esp8266 devices for renards (like the d1 wemos mini). No mention of renard or another generic option. When I look at the firmware's newest version that I have installed and working perfectly on some pixel pops as well as a bunch of wemos d1 mini boards, I only see two choices: ws2811 pixels, and GE pixels. They would really like a wireless solution rather than cords coming in the house.

I had gone to pixels recently, but my parents are going to use my renard gear. So I could swear I remember hearing something about that forkineye espixelstick firmware being able to be used for renard boards.