Collaborate Disseminate
Over the last few years, it’s been increasingly common for concertgoers to be handed a light-up bracelet from PixMob that synchronizes with the others in the crowd to turn the …read more Continue reading Hosting Your Own PixMob Party Made Easy
LED wristbands are now a common feature of large arena concerts and events, with a variety of capabilities and technical implementations. In the video after the break, Wall Street Journal …read more Continue reading Exploring The Tech Behind Concert LED Wristbands
More fallout for SpaceX this week after their Starship launch attempt, but of the legal kind rather than concrete and rebar. A handful of environmental groups filed the suit, alleging …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 7, 2023
Here’s what some fans had to say as they waited in a five-hour line for concert tickets. Continue reading I Went to Maggie Rogers’ Ticketmasterless, In-Person Presale
There’s something magical about a laser light show. Watching that intense beam of light flit back and forth to make shapes and patterns, some of them even animated, is pretty neat. It leaves those of us with a technical bent wondering just exactly how the beam is manipulated that fast. …read more
Continue reading Lighting Tech Dives into the Guts of Laser Galvanometers
A few summers of my misspent youth found me working at an outdoor concert venue on the local crew. The local crew helps the show’s technicians — don’t call them roadies; they hate that — put up the show. You unpack the trucks, put up the lights, fly the sound system, help run the show, and put it all back in the trucks at the end. It was grueling work, but a lot of fun, and I got to meet people with names like “Mister Dog Vomit.”
One of the things I most remember about the load-in process was running …read more