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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Does not matter. Enjoy the show.
Does not matter. Enjoy the show.
