{"id":4709,"date":"2019-01-06T22:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T03:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2019-01-06T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T03:56:32","slug":"megatree-ball-topper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatree Ball Topper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VAIVjVusqsA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Christmas 2017, I built a computer controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/megatree-materials-costs\/\">RGB Pixel LED megatree<\/a> around a pine tree in my yard. For Christmas 2018, I built a 48&#8243; outside diameter &#8220;ball&#8221; topper for the tree. (It looks better when it&#8217;s pulled 20&#8242; up the tree, and lit up at night&#8230;)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/img_20181207_123011\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181207_123011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181207_123011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181207_123011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181207_123011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181207_123011-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the first &#8220;large scale&#8221; project that made use of my<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/maslow-cnc-hanging-router-review\/\"> Maslow CNC router<\/a> to cut out a large number of parts (which took many hours) that bolt together in such a way that each individual part can fit into a 27 gallon tote for storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/ring_pieces-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ring_pieces-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ring_pieces-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ring_pieces-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it actually took longer to cut out all of the parts than to paint them, but painting them with exterior house paint for some weather protection also took a bit of effort.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/img_20181202_093857\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181202_093857-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181202_093857-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181202_093857-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181202_093857-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20181202_093857-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want my OpenSCAD files to make your own version, you can find it in this zip file:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/topperopenscad\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4713\">topperOpenscad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a video that shows off some of the animations I sequenced for 2018:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/keFCMZed9c0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas 2017, I built a computer controlled RGB Pixel LED megatree around a pine tree in my yard. For Christmas 2018, I built a 48&#8243; outside diameter &#8220;ball&#8221; topper for the tree. (It looks better when it&#8217;s pulled 20&#8242; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/megatree-ball-topper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-megatree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}