Come See Us at the 10th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area 2015

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Apr 292015
 
cool neon maker faire MACome See Us, Saturday & Sunday, May 16th and 17th

Well of course we are going to be at the Maker Faire again this year, because that is who you are, Makers.
So come on out to see us!

Maker Faire is a full-blown community fair that celebrates making, invention and creativity.  This family-friendly event brings together science, art, craft, homesteading and engineering plus music, food, workshops, and performance, and showcases the amazing work of makers across the San Francisco Bay and beyond.

MF15_Map_8x11Look for us next to our LITEWALL (See photo above) in Fiesta Hall’s Dark Room in Zone 3 (see map above).

And we are excited to tell you that Benny once again is going to be a presenter at the Maker Faire.

Benny Presenting at the Maker Faire 2013

Benny Presenting at the Maker Faire 2013

Benny’s Presentation:
Technology of Total Control Lighting LEDs
When: Saturday, May 16th 5PM
Where: San Mateo County Events Center, C – Electronics Stage

You are not going to want to miss any of it.

When:  Saturday & Sunday, May 16th and 17th
Where: San Mateo County Events Center, CA

Saturday 10am – 8pm
Sunday 10am – 6pm

Buy Your Tickets Here
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We look forward to seeing you there!
Benny, Karen and the Elves

Put a Cylon On It With Cool Neon Total Control Lighting!

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Jul 192014
 

 

Red Cylon Eye

Red Cylon Eye

We suspect that if you knew what a cylon was, you would want to install one. So, from Chris Knight, here is the first Instructable “Put a Cylon On It“, and this is how it starts…

Last year the comedy sketch show ‘Portlandia‘ made fun of an arts and craft trend, where craft artists would take ordinary items and ‘put a bird on it’. I fell victim to a similar trend in the geek crowd: Take an ordinary silver item and add LEDs to ‘put a cylon in it’. 🙂

When I saw the Total Control Lighting strands, the first thing that came to mind was sticking these on the front of my Jeep to create a ‘Cylon Eye’. Installing them in the Jeep was a breeze, which then freed me up to tinker with the software. I now have a multi-mode Cylon Eye with a pretty purple control module in my Jeep.

As you can see from the Instructable, the Red Cylon Eye uses the Super Density WS2812 strip on the Awesome Developer Kit.

We just heard from Chris again, and he has made some final tweaks to the Red Cylon Eye, outlined in this Instructable.

 

Total Control Lighting: Flume – Infinity Prism

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Aug 212013
 

Here’s a look at what fabulousness can be built with Total Control Lighting. The artists, Toby and Pete said:

We created this interactive light installation for Flume’s “Infinity Prism Tour”. The prism has since become an icon that accompanies Flume on stage at all of his live shows.

Flume – Infinity Prism from Toby & Pete on Vimeo.

Pretty amazing isn’t it!

Benny, Karen & the Elves

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