RENARD PLUS HOLIDAY LIGHTING CONTROLLERS




We are a small group of 5 people that got together back in 2012 and decided to produce a small line of printed circuit boards for the DIY Christmas Community. We are not a big business and we all work out of our homes. Some of us are still employed with a day job and some of us are retired.

All of our controllers can be controlled with freely available software including xLights or Vixen Lights.

All of our documentation, manuals, BOM's, and firmware can be found on the individual product pages.

To contact us for support, missing parts and questions please email me at dean@alpinesoft.com

We also invite you to visit the DIY Christimas forum for more information about Renard Plus projects as well as other "blinkey Flasher" stuff. WARNING: This can be very addictive and we are not responsible for the outcome of becoming addicted.

For International orders please contact us before you place your order for a quote on the additional postage.

For a list of all our products please visit the Renard Plus Online Store


Some of our popular products



ESP WiFi Controller

The Renard Plus ESP WiFi Pixel controller kit is our take on a very inexpensive way to control pixels using a Wireless router. Our board can be configured for both 5 volt or 12 volt pixels, uses all through parts (included with the kit) and the radio module is even INCLUDED. What a bargain.

ESP WiFi Pixel Controller Link
Raspberry PI Zero Pixel Controller

The simple PI adapter allows you to connect two strings of lights to a PI and power them with fusing. This is a simple board with the minimum required to drive the pixels. In addition, there is the option to add a RS-485/RS422 buffer to drive either Renard or DMX. This kit includes all of the parts except the Raspberry PI.

Pi Zero Pixel Controller
Simple PI Pixel oOntroller

The simple PI adapter allows you to connect two strings of lights to a PI and power them with fusing. This is a simple board with the minimum required to drive the pixels. In addition, there is the option to add a RS-485/RS422 buffer to drive either Renard or DMX. The jumpers allow the RJ45 jack to support either pin out. This kit includes all of the parts except the Raspberry PI

Simple Pi Pixel Controller
DC Distribution Board Kit

This 1 DC input (any voltage) and 6 fused outputs is ideal providing power to multiple devices. This kit contains all of the parts to build the distribution board.

DC Distribution Board Kit
Wall Wart Tamer Kit

This is a kit of parts with board included designed to "tame down" a wall wart for use in audio projects such as transmitters. We have made several changes since our version 1 boards (a few less parts).

Wall Wart Tamer Kit
16 Channel AC Light Controller Board

The Renard Plus TR-16 contgroller board is a full power (24 amp) controller designed using the Renard protocol. Renard is the name of a computer-controlled, PIC-based dimmer scheme. This design uses a PIC micro-controller capable of outputting 16 channels and can be daisy-chained, use one-direction RS485 for input. This controller requires a personal computer to send it real-time sequences of dimmer commands to the controller.

16 Channel AC Controller Board

We have 12 other AC lighting boards so plese visit our store.