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    Curved Lighted box / plexiglass frosting - how do I do this

    How about white cloth? It needs a curved frame top and bottom. This could be cut wood, or perhaps bent pipe.or the lighting, perhaps use Christmas twinkle lights. These lights could fit between the vertical supports and the cloth so that there are no shadows from the internal lights...
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    Falling Through A Glass Table

    If you don't go with a glass table, you might get some of the cringe-worthy aspect of that back, by having some other glass/ceramic object break, such as a large vase, or even multiple vases.However, I am not quite ready to give up on the breaking glass table. You already mentioned that the...
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    Paradigm button ideas

    I have used the old X-10 system that has been public domain for a few decades now. And you would think that more modern technology would be able to come up with a system that is as easy to use, but more robust and reliable. But, no, virtually all the new smart home devices out there have major...
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    Practical physics question: casters and wagons and weight.

    I second gafftapegreenia's recommendation for using straight wheels. However, if it is not tracked, then be sure to allow space for it to wonder a bit, over the multiple trips back and forth. Making sure the wheels are all mounted parallel is important.Locking casters are more prone to wonder...
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    A Mushroom Cloud to "wow the audience"

    I recall accidentally making a mushroom cloud on a small scale. Like an earlier poster, it was for a puppet show. Not having a fog machine, I improvised by putting a little talcum powder in a small bottle, and then feeding a short length of 1/2" dia tubing in and out of the bottle. By...
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    Hiding actors onstage using lighting

    I have used a light curtain before. It is a very thin fan of light coming from an upstage source, and visible because of a heavy haze (or well dispersed fog). Of course, lasers are sometimes used this way, but as soon as you start aiming powerful lasers where people can go, the rules and laws...
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    LED/Laser Costume Effects?!?

    I agree that having the lighting effect in the floor is probably the best and easiest option. I imagine, to look like it is coming from the body, the lights emitting from just upstage of the actor is the way to do it.In the past, I did a little research into LED's for focused beams. You can...
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    Wizard of Oz - no great balls of fire allowed! How to make it work?

    I had been thinking about solutions for this effect myself. My current thinking was to put some LEDs in either a Nerf-ball or a whiffle-ball. The LED's would be driven by a standard tea-light flicker LED, which would be used to drive some brighter LEDs (see Does this LED sound funny to you? |...
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