Archive for the ‘Entertainment Technology’ Category

Event Safety Guides

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Safety is important when arranging events. And there are a lot of things to consider to make the event safe for everybody (I know from experience from several event I have been working with).

Control Geek blog writes about US Event Safety Alliance Document in Public Review. The Event Safety Alliance is a group of entertainment industry leaders gathered to address the immediate need for universal safety standards for the production of live events. To help to form the standards, the Event Safety Alliance has now released a draft Event Safety Guide for public review.

The guide seem to be based on a European document that you can freely download in pdf format.

Funny LED video

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Show agency presents Funny Led video is a Funny LED video to start 2013. Two LED displays and two actors is all you need to be astonished. In the second half of the video actors do some rather cool things with LEDs—especially the piano, trumpets and x-ray.

Compressorhead: Ace of Spades

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Here is a music video for this Friday. This Compressorhead: Ace of Spades video shows a true metal band. Compressorhead claims to be the worlds heaviest metal band. The band consists of robots made by Robocross. Metal plays itself. Sweet.

Christmas lights with Arduino

Friday, December 14th, 2012

I have some years posted links to different Christmas lights project on the net. This year is no different. Here is the first one on this topic.

Christmas light controller is its own percussion section article tells that Jason and his father took advantage of a week off of work over Thanksgiving to design and build a Christmas light decoration that can flash fancy patterns. He calls this Arduino Uno powered Christmas tree Uno Christmas Tree. The main controller is based on Arduino UNO and a 16 channel mechanical relay board. The project builder aims to use solid state relays to be faster and less chance of a relay sticking.

Earlier postings on Christmas lights:

Holiday Lights and Laser Dangers

25,000 Angry Christmas Lights

Holiday project ideas

Christmas Light Hero

Christmas-tree light testing

Computerized christmas lights

Christmas Lights

I/O Voltages for Entertainment Control

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Low-Voltage I/O Voltages Used for Entertainment Control article tells results of the survey what low voltage I/O voltages are used in entertainment control industry. There are several different possible I/O voltages in use, in both AC and DC variations. According to the survey it seems that 12V and 24V DC are the most commonly used nowadays.

Halloween hack ideas

Monday, October 29th, 2012

It is time for scary hacks. Halloween is just around the corner. Hare are some hacking ideas for Halloween.

Arduino voice changer turns you into [Vader] article tells that Phil Burgess over at Adafruit put together an Arduino-powered voice changer to give his voice the gravitas of [James Earl Jones] or the lightheartedness of a member of the Lollipop Guild.

Halloween Props: a spooky mirror article presents an Android Haunted Mirror you can see on the video below:

Bottomless halloween basket is a pretty simple combination of some optical tricks and LEDs.

Math Class Fun article shows an awesome Hollywood prank.

My Mercedes uses LEDs to create invisible car post mentions iPad2 Halloween Costume- Gaping hole in torso.

Low hanging fog is a good effect for any scary display. Do not make the same mistakes as in Spooky Fog Machine Hack That DIDN’T work!. Instead rely on classic dry ice for at shown for example in Mighty Mini Fog Maker video.

Halloween Props: Ghoul in the box puts on a pretty good show has all the elements of a classic Halloween prop and some hight tech inside. Walk in front of the box and one of two modes will be triggered. the video gives you a look at the operation, as well as the components used in the build it.

A collection of hands to inspire your Halloween animatronics tells that one of the best choices for Halloween prop is a ghoulishly lifelike hand. You can draw some inspiration from this roundup of robot hands which Adafruit put together.

OpenPLC, for industrial automation to Halloween displays article factories have programmable logic controllers to take care of their automation tasks and they are also good devices to control your Halloween effects. open-plc project is an open hardware design to build your own programmable logic controller that is compatible with Arduino code sketches.

And if you want to see how a big Halloween attraction is built read Gravesend Inn postings at Control Geek blog. This show needs a pretty big control network to keep all the effect controllers in line with the planned show.

Buttons operated show control in TV shows

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

I saw an interesting article at Controlgeek blog titled America’s Got Talent Buzzer Show Control. It tells how the judge buttons work in the “World’s Largest Talent Show”. Those buttons sound a loud buzzer sound effect, fire a bunch of strobes and light cues, and trigger video on large upstage video wall. Often on TV, things like this are done just with a bunch of backstage operators (lighting, sound, video, etc.) triggering their systems manually, and it gets close enough to look OK. This show is controlled by a laptop computer that is interconnected to audio system, lighting desk and video wall controlling. Read America’s Got Talent Buzzer Show Control article for more details.

Using a PC for this kind of application makes sense. I also used laptop PC based approach many years ago on TV show light system I built years ago for one small TV production. You can find details of my systems on my Scene Quiz Show lights article I posted to this blog few years ago. My system was connected to sound effects and light dimmer.

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MIT Huge Tetris Hack

Friday, May 11th, 2012

I have earlier written about a tiny Tetris. Not is time for a big Tetris. At MIT, fun is accomplished with architecture. Hackers turn MIT Building into Tetris Game. MIT hackers have, for some time now, considered playing “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the mother of all MIT hacks because “the side of the building is a wonderful grid for the game”. They are using 153 windows on the side of the MIT Green building to host the game. It looks like the grid is nine windows wide and 15 stories tall. Players could control the puzzle a good distance away from the building, using a joystick attached to a podium to rotate, drop, and move blocks just like in the real game. Here is a video of this hack.

Here is another video of this hack.

The images on the windows aren’t projections; they’re probably LEDs placed inside each window and, of course, synched up with the game console at ground level via wireless. Hackers used 153 wirelessly controlled, color-changing LED lights for their enormous game. Slashdot told that MIT’s The Tech published an article with technical details behind the Tetris hack they did on the Green Building. The article includes photographs of the LED modules, as well as a link to some of the source code used in the hack. The hackers have released some of the source code on GitHub, and are looking for people to contribute code that could run on the system.

Nice hack.

Mercedes uses LEDs to create invisible car

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Mercedes uses LEDs to create invisible car article tells that Mercedes campaign makes interesting use of LED technology to market new message to consumers.

To promote its new fuel cell technology, luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz went in the complete opposite direction of what most companies do when marketing a new product: As opposed to inundating consumers with hundreds of shots of the car, they made the vehicle completely invisible.

And they did this using LED technology. They outfitted one side of the car with a mat of LEDs. On the other side, the team at Mercedes mounted a Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera. The video that the camera picked up was then displayed on the LED side of the vehicle. The use of LED technology is pretty cool. Here are some shots of how it all turned out:

As you can see in the Mercedes video, even though people could still tell there was a car going by, they seemed impressed by the “invisible” fuel-cell vehicle.

Mercedes Rolls Out Invisible Car [VIDEO] article has in addition to the video shown above a car setup picture set.

Mercedes Rolls Out Invisible Car [VIDEO] article also mentions (with a video) that the technology used in making car visible was basically pretty similar to one used in iPad2 Halloween Costume- Gaping hole in torso video (in this case thsi DIY person was using 2 iPad2s that have FaceTime chat between them).

iPad Magic

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Friday special video. Farewell to boring Power Point slide shows, now come iPad magicians! The City of Stockholm surprised with an iPad show. New iPad Act – Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales. New iPad magic. On behalf of Stockholm — The Capital of Scandinavia and Step2 Communication. Performed at MIPIM in Cannes by Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales. Magic with technology. I was busy with my eyes, didn’t recognized anything they were blabbering about :D Does not matter. Enjoy the show.


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