Recent content by James Diemer

Hmmm... I hadn't thought of wireless motor control. I've cannibalized old screw gun motors and model airplane controls to do something similar before... Back to the drafting board.

In a perfect world, the table falls to pieces with an entire place setting (I think there is supposed to be cake) and then fixes itself - including the dishes and other things.The 4th leg idea might work pretty well, especially if the same line pulls the dishes back to position.

Just going to throw this out there. Next up in our season is Mary Poppins and the table is giving me the biggest headache. I've seen several solutions, but most were just what I'd call "serviceable."What solutions have you come up with and what did you learn? What would you do...

Just to expand on that (for anyone reading this in future searches):Even when it's "at full," the dimmer isn't giving out the same type of power as your wall AC outlets (square waves and general electrical math aside).Some devices (moving lights, LEDs, computers, motors and fans) want the...

The more I think about it, the more it seems that this is the best idea (for our space). Even if the next show needs that 8 foot stair unit, it won't need the 6 foot or the 10 foot - so why keep them all together. Assembling the stair isn't nearly as time consuming as building one or even just...

That's what we have going on at the moment. There's far too many clever people on here for no one to have tried some interesting methods (I hope).

Overhauling the storage of a theatre and I can't seem to come up with an efficient way to store our stock of stair units (just the carriages with the treads attached, no legging). What's your preferred method for storing these?