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46 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes. But since we Germans search for the christmas pickle on dec. 24th it's only 45 days right? Then again you have to put the diorama in place on - at least - dez 1st. Oh my gosh. My motor power-supply is ready now. Yay for smoke. Yay for buying double parts. And testing ;)

Received the Bricklink order today yay In the meantime I built the custom 19v power suply for up to 6 sets. No, please don't plug in a normal usb device or you get hurt ;D The sets are connected via usb cables... Working on the m-Motor too, it's just too fast right now...

I don't see a way with less cables. You have 48 leds in the base so you have to double that for +/- so you get 96 wires. I took a row of 6 so you have 16 wires that goes to the top for 8 different channels. 16 lights in the top part devided into 2 channels make another 4 wires. So you end with 20 right? um. You will at least need the transistor board to get enough voltage for the lights. Maybe - just maybe you can take an arduino board to reduce the other things I stuffed in it. But I think that would be a bit too much... Putting a single led as a simple backlight for the whole plate isn't working I tried with a transparent 2x2 in the inside with 3 ultra bright leds and its just way too dark.

Just a quick update, testing with the booth lights. Okayish so far. I spent the weekend to make the other sets compatible with 19v, so all parts can use the same powersource now... I'm still waiting for the bricklink order... My coworker integrated lights into the carousel as well, but it blinks from bottom to top, looks really neat that way. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/finishlast/xmas/2013-9.jpg

Then just go ahead and buy it, should be already in the stores I ordered parts on bricklink today. Going to move on to integrate everthing. I think I have all smd led soldered and am ready to complete the smaller booths thingies. I'm going to try to drill my way through the lamp Posts soon. Patches for my thump and everything all in place.

Yes, now that I think of it the word was -eh- FUN! You have to drill 1mm holes, but I'm not afraid to do that, I did that to the other sets and I will do it again. Lego-Brick-Murderer muhahahaha The best way to do it without getting loose cables all the time is by putting some superglue in the 1x plates . There is a deeper hole in it where the smd led fit in, that way you have a really stable combination of plate, smd led and cable. Then you have to drill your way through the other bricks. I know I know most Lego people will stab me now in the eyes but it's the only way to include that many leds without seeing a cable from the outside. I'm not going to rip the set part again anyways... And yes, I will post new pictures when I'm done, I already soldered the last 14 leds yesterday. Right now I wonder how to drill through the lamp posts....

It's based on something I found on a german case-modding site. www.moddingtech.de "lauflicht 2" (just search Google) Unfortunatelly the site seems to be down right now. I found the main circuit on Google Pictures again so see here: I have 19v in the base and took 2 cables to bring it to the top, then transformed it down to 5v (the green board - you can take just a single -eh- whatever its called in english . .. power lower thing.. hehe voltage Regulator or so) to fit the moddingtech circuit. Basically you take a ne555 as a clock ( the thing at the top my picture with the black piti) then you put the signal on a 4017 10 bit Counter so you get a 10 channel blinker. Its the thing with the resistors beneath the ne555 board. Every channel only supports one led, so I put every channel agains a transistor and switch the 19v on and off. That way I was able to put two strings of 6 yellow and 6 blue leds in each 2*8 at the sides. So I used channel 1-8 for the for side plates which have 6 yellow and 6 blue so all in all 48 leds for the sides. Channel 9-10 are used to light the top. 2 leds in each edge so I connected ever second edge to make it "move" a bit. Yes and lots and lots of soldering and screaming a word a thousend times. I think it started with the letter f.

Absolutely genuine, yes ;) I'm concentrating on the most frustrating part right now, soldering those tiny smd leds. 14 or something are still to come. Then I will have to order some more white plates to make it fit somewhere in http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=75913&st=0 <-here. The motor part is worked on! My coworker and his son are doing the testing right now ;) See the motor tests here!

Hi there, I mean - eh - HOHOHO there. Once again I struggled with the new winterset, I'm not really done with it, lighting up some booths, adding to the scenery.... etc. but since I completed the übertask with the carousel, I do think it's time to present at least this bit... I added 62 smd led, here are some pics of it and a small Video I uploaded to YouTube, so that you get the idea... Oh and I will really NEVER do that again. You will get mentally ill, I dare you...

That one was built by one of my co-workers ;)

Or you could try to get something like this: http://www.imperiumdersteine.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=36367&stc=1&d=1350817032 http://www.imperiumdersteine.de/showthread.php?t=27455

I drilled the pieces. The old toy store lamps where easier. I ruined the cottage light pole which melted... ;) But then I cut it where the small melted part began and let a small part of it as a stud. I then put three round bricks on it (like the toy shop lamps have) and a nose cone brick thing. It really looks nice and a bit more like the toy shop poles which is not bad at all. So nobody can tell that I screwed up that part (except for all lego fans here...) I used a 1 mm drill. Or you could pretend that it was hit by a snow strom and when all the extra snow is melted, you can open it the normal way....

Yes, I uploaded them to brickshelf and the video to youtube. Brickshelf told me the folder is not yet public, so maybe we have to wait a little

Um I just found out my homepage storage got suspended due to traffic ;o) sorry for no pics showing up... I used white leds only for the inside of the backery and toy shop. I then moved to yellow leds for transparent yellow lamps / and the street lamps. White just looks too cold. Red for transparent red and so on. The colors just look better. White leds behind red bricks looks kinda pinkish. So I tried to match the led color to the brick color. Another benefit is that white leds costs a lot more than colored led and they take a higher voltage/amp for some reason. So the colored micro smd leds look better and are much cheaper, a win win situation...

I think you can pick the stuff up in every electronic store. I bought mine in Germany, leds, constant led power supplies (about 5-6 leds per power supply, depends on the color), a thing to lower the voltage for the 6 channel flashing light and the flashing light itself . I only connected 3 outputs so the cottage light flashes in yellow, red and then green. I also saw a "Night Rider" light thing but thought that would be TOO geeky... All connected to a 19V - 4.22A Fujitsu notebook power supply. Just to get an idea, here's what I bought... LED constant power supply: http://www.conrad.de...earchDetail=005 57 leds http://www.conrad.de...earchDetail=005 The voltage regulator http://www.conrad.de...earchDetail=005 for the 6 channel flashing light http://www.conrad.de...earchDetail=005 Oh and fake candel led for the barrel so the minifigs can warm up a little... My wife told me to let it stand in my daughters room but I will SO put it on the shelf in the living room (when she left the apartment) muhhahahaha

Layouts Hi there,so I bought the next set and added it to my diorama.I'm still annoyed by the snow on the roof, the post office was literally snowless and the cottage looks like it was hit by a snow storm.Anyway, I placed the houses from left to right with a lot of snow and then less and less snow.Right now it features 57 led lights, a blinking light rope and a flashing led as a burning barrel for the christmas singers...So take a look: I hope the pictures will show up: http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=516502 And here a small video of the whole diorama with blinking lights: How do I edit the Topic? I think village needs another l...

You can tweak it with some leds like I did. Sorry I only have this wip video right now. http://home.arcor.de/finishlast/2012.wmv (5mb wmv)

I think they should keep at least the style of the roofs. I dont't really like the green roof of the post office because the first two buildings had white roofs and now we get another roof with more than a ton of snow on top of it. So it's snowing quiet more on this roof or what?! Maybe it's just me but you would have to alter the roofs to make them fit in a diorama. (I didn't alter them in mine.. but still ...)