Post your FM "Tune To" sign here.

Here is my tune to sign. Just a basic 2x4 frame with coro sign on the front. Letters were taped off by hand and sign painted black. Has rope light inside right now but might throw a couple pixels in before all is said and done.
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Coro and vinyl cutout, RGB strip on a wood frame.
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Testing some colors with Vixen 3
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nuelemma said:
Coro and vinyl cutout, RGB strip on a wood frame.
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Do you have the RGB strip being controlled by Vixen or is it just free running on a separate controller? It would be nice if this could be controlled by Vixen because then I could change the color as per program based on the music content.

Thanx,

Geo
 
Both sides of this sign are the same. The inside is lite using 8 C7 Christmas lights that are different colors.
 

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jukingeo said:
Do you have the RGB strip being controlled by Vixen or is it just free running on a separate controller? It would be nice if this could be controlled by Vixen because then I could change the color as per program based on the music content.

Thanx,

Geo
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It is controlled by Vixen using Ren64XC and DCSSR.

Emmanuel
 
Here is a pic of our sign. My wife had it made at the local FastSigns place. We were very pleased. We just told them what we were looking for and they came up with this. I thought it was pretty neat. Will definitely do business with them again if the opportunity comes up.
 

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Built a simple 1x4 wood frame with white plastic trim. Got the vinyl stickers from someone on this site (I can't remember who) and stuck it to a sheet of plexiglass. I left the white "wrapper" on the inside to give it the background color. It is back lite with a white LED strand.

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DIY Sparks said:
Built with stuff from the garage, enameled heavily, and hung (and locked) from a low tree limb 15 feet from the street.
Plus I didn't mind the exacto-knife letter cutting and detailed brush painting around the stencil outlines.
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I was inspired by Sparky's sign! Mine is not completed yet, but all the important parts are there.

Let's see, 10" high 7-segment "LED" digits. I had a vinyl lettering company (SignSpecialist.com) make a reverse 1888 in vinyl sheet (which turned out really nice!) using with a font I found on-line. I applied this to the back of a clear plexiglass sheet. With Coro, I made the segments (sadly, not separately addressable) with Red, Green, and Blue LEDs. To specify an actual frequency, I use black electrical tape to mask out the unneeded segments and voila! Sign!

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The "Tune to FM" part is transparent green vinyl on semi-translucent plexiglass. But I had bought and cut out the letters before I found SignSpecialist - or else I would have had them do the letting,. It would have only been $1-$2 more than the transparent sheets I bought!

I still need to make a suitable frame to hold it all together, probably in black with aluminum (or black plastic) L-channel around the edges to hold the plexi in place, then hang on a candy-cane striped PVC pipe outer frame. With 4 channels, I can control the white background, and choose (reasonably) any RGB combination, or cycling, color for 7-segment digits. With some white diffuser behind the cutouts, to obscure the individual LEDs, the digits also appear white in the daylight, and the green letting is visible on the white background: so the sign is also visible during the day time without power [could be good or bad, I guess...]

So, it's still under construction, but I wanted to show it off to someone.

Jimboha
 
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Oops, got all rotated, and lack size reference: there's a coke can by the upper LEFT corner.

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jimboha said:
PS I got some attached thumbnails below that I can't figure out how to get rid of. Any clues?
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Nice looking job!

To remove those thumbnails... "edit post" then scroll down and click "manage attachments" then remove them. :)
 
Who posted the picture of the 'tune to' sign that also had the candy cane holders? I really liked that one and wanted to see about using that as a reference for mine but I cant find the picture now
 
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