Hacked Gadgets user Edo from Germany made this pretty fantastic RGB LED table using 5mm RGB LEDs and some Arduino microcontrollers. He has some fading color sequences, some equalizer bar sequences, and perhaps my favorite FX – the table responds to acceleration. When you tip it one way or another, it responds. Edo, you officially [...]
Read More arduino, Hacked Gadgets, interactive furniture, LED, RGB, RGB LED tableI read about some of the PC lighting control company Enttec's wares tonight – considering I am saving up to buy the Hog 3 PC programming and playback interfaces for use with my WYSIWYG suite (I have a loooong way to go…), these units look pretty cool. Provided, that is, they would work with the [...]
Read More Enttec, ethernet, macro, PC lighting control, playback, Programming, shortcutLuminair has been rocking the iPhone for a while now – the iPhone/iPod Touch DMX device control application uses Art-Net to communicate with devices employing Wi-Fi over your network. It's sexy. Synthe-FX just released Luminair 1.5, an update with great features for the interface, real time data display, and moving light control just to name [...]
Read More Art-Net, DMX, DMX control, iphone, Luminair, Luminair 1.5, softwareA series of sustainability retrofits has been announced for New York's Empire State Building – the goal is to reduce energy costs for the skyscraper by 40%. Is this a lofty goal? There's a $20 million dollar grand retrofit planned, and the energy savings from it are supposed to total somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]
Read More Clinton Climate Initiative, empire state building, energy, Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, retrofit, Rocky Mountain Institute, sustainableI just read an article at iSquint about two more fatalities in the growth of technology: the High End Systems Cyberlight and the High End Systems Studio Beam. ETC stopped taking orders for the Express and Expression lines in the Fall of 2008 – I assume for promote the Congo, Eos, and Ion. As technology [...]
Read More Cyberlight, Electronic Theatre Controls, ETC, Express, expression, High end, iSquint, Studio BeamDo you remember that great guide that Susan Rose wrote for the Whole Hog II console? Cat West of Console Trainer has produced a Whole Hog guide for the operating system used in the Whole Hog 3, Hog iPC (in 3 mode), Road Hog, Road Hog Full Boar, and Hog3PC. Cat's guide is great – [...]
Read More Cat West, Console Trainer, Hog iPC, Hog3PC, Road Hog Full Boar, Whole Hog 3, whole hog IIOne of the people I follow on Twitter – a gal named Cat West – has published a video on using the Echo software to collage across pixelation luminaires (ie, StudioPix and ShowPix). It's a good video – please check it out! Setting up Pixellage from Cat West on Vimeo. Also, check out Cat's blog [...]
Read More Cat West, Consoles, Echo, Education, pixellation luminaires, SHOWPIX, Studiopix, trainingWhat's that you say? Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) has released a new series of consoles! So, to the huge family of consoles at ETC – from the Microvision FX way back in the day to the Expression line, the Express line to the Obsession line, the Congo, Eos, Ion, SmartFade, and architectural controls Unison and [...]
Read More Consoles, Electronic Theatre Controls, Element, EOS, ETC, etc express, etc expression, Ion, microvision fx, Obsession, SmartFadeWhat's the number one issue you can think of when it comes to using big ol' mercury vapor and sodium vapor fixtures in places like arenas and convention centers? I am not looking for "they make my girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife look like crap," in case you were wondering… You can't dim them! Until now! Colorado company Wybron [...]
Read More Accessories, dimmer, douser, iris, mechanical, mechanical dimming, wybronThe Golden Globes awards show featured lighting control by the Eos from Electronic Theatre Controls of Middleton, WI this year; an Eos console and a 2X20 ETC Universal Fader Wing were used to control the over 700 channels of lighting used in this year's awards show. The press release is a great read: The glamour [...]
Read More 2X20 Universal Fader Wing, Electronic Theatre Controls, EOS, ETC, ETC Eos, Golden Globes