Showing posts with label shoutout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoutout. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Dimlet: the network-controlled light dimmer

John Boiles, the pyrotechnics guy from our computer controlled fireworks video, also happens to do some pretty awesome electrical engineering work. Here's a little sample. John's built a portable network-controlled light dimmer that... well, let's just let him explain it:

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Canada Day and Fireworks Photography

Our Canuck friends to the north are celebrating their country's birthday today, as we will be celebrating America's in a few days. With all of these fireworks going off, you might want to take a few pictures to remember your country's 142nd or 233rd birthday. We found a great blog post on how to photograph fireworks displays like a pro on Digital Photography School. Happy Canada Day!

Monday, June 29, 2009

...and then we were awesome!

Yesterday we spent a hot Texas day at the Wolf Stunt Ranch shooting off fireworks with the help of the amazing staff out there.

The stunt ranch is a lot more than just a field to blow up fireworks in though. Check out everything they do.

Epic Fireworks

Just wanted to give a shoutout to the guys at the Epic Fireworks blog for featuring our proof of concept video on their blog. Stay tuned for our video premiere, featuring the full-scale fireworks show, coming this week.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

An Engineering Mind on WIRED

We wanted to give a 'shoutout' to our friend, Todd Sierer, over at An Engineering Mind. He got interviewed by GeekDad over on the WIRED blogs, and we think the interview is hilarious.

Check it out here.