Recent content by Morydd

In my mind the patch is how you make it easy to remember where things are. My front lights are in dimmers 5-24. Area 1 Warm is 5, Area 2 is 7, area 3 is 9; area 4 is 6, etc. That's a pain to remember. Area 1 warm is channel 11, area 2 is 12, area 3 is 13; area 1 warm is 21, area 2 is 22, area 3...

Has anyone repainted the floor in the house? My searching isn't turning up much of anything.We have a 500 seat auditorium with concrete floors that are painted a truly inspiring shade of grey. Except where 10 years of traffic has taken the paint off. It's definitely starting to look bad...

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'll keep digging. We actually work like a corporate customer. Requesitions, POs and Invoices. The school takes 30+ days to reimburse if I pay out of pocket, and they don't give us any other way to pay.

We're giving metal work a try on our current show, but I can't seem to find a supplier for stock.We have a great metals shop at the far end of the building, but they mostly use thin sheet stock and occasionally round tubing. Most of which seems to be scavenged by the students. Oddly, the guy...

I work in a high school, so the labor is free, and by tech week, they already hate me a little bit. :)

I was thinking the same could work with the electromagnet theory.

That seems like an interesting idea, but I fear that once the first few leaves came off there wouldn't be enough pressure to push the remaining out.

I'd like to explore moving this out of the theoretical. I just came up with a similar idea myself, and since this discussion is here, why not jump on. My thought is to get some 1" conduit, bundle it into "trunks" and bend the "branches" out. Metal tree!Now... How to actually magnetize the...

At our school, you get to sign a brick in the scene shop when you graduate. Only when you graduate, and it's done at a time set aside for that activity, so it's supervised. Any other writing on the walls is considered vandalism, and gets you a trip to the Dean. At the other building, they don't...

Slightly crazy, but combine the color wheel with the color codes. So an arrow to green that shows (note, I'm making up the numbers so they're most likely all wrong): PRG-50' Res-5ohm Wire-Ground etc.

Re: Resurfacing Stage FloorI see it as the difference between a KIA and a BMW too, but I go with the KIA. Sure, if you treat it right the BMW will last forever, but if you want to be able to throw tools in the trunk, occasionally cram some lumber inside, park in sketchy parts of town, and not...

I was looking at the Element yesterday and I don't know if it actually outputs ArtNet. I saw DMX, EDMX, and ACN as options, but not ArtNet. Am I missing it somewhere?

I think we're going to do ethernet for this one, it sits on a desk and doesn't move, so one less thing to troubleshoot. For future versions we may go to wifi for ease of placement and wireless. Our current design should (in theory) also be able to trigger relays.n1ist: Thanks for the links.

We're trying to build a prop with several LEDs that (hopefully) can be individually controlled. The idea was to be able to control them via the light board (ETC Element). I've enlisted a friend who's very good with electronics, but has no theatrical background. It looks like we could build an...

Perhaps someone knows a lawyer who would be willing to send a response letter pro bono. One of the requirements of holding a trademark is that you defend that trademark. BackstageJobs is well known and has been for 15 years. If they just got around to sending a C&D, it could probably be argued...