Flicker Candle Movies

Good news everybody! I’ve finally posted movies of the flicker candles in action. Jeez, that took long enough. Build info here. flicker_light flicker_dark...
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Pivoting Success!

Update for “Pivot Puck” post. – We installed the pivoting masking wall today, and it was a smashing success. Pivot pucks are definitely going into our stock inventory....
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More Pivoting...

Continuing in the pivoting vein, these are the pivot points we are using for the top of the masking walls I mentioned above. If you haven’t seen the half cheesebouroughs before, they are hard to beat when attaching stuff to pipe. edit: Oh yeah, you can find them at BMI....
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Pivot Puck

We need to pivot a few masking walls for our upcoming production of Hughie. So this little UHMW bugger was born; I like to call it a pivot puck. Screw the puck to a surface and place a shaft in it (our shaft is welded to plate steel that bears on the top surface of the puck) and you’ve got an instant pivot point! (Just make sure the screw heads are countersunk below the surface....
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Brighter Flicker Candles

Is anyone satisfied with the way that flicker candles look on stage? If you didn’t raise your hand, then read on. If you did raise your hand, well, keep reading anyways. On the surface, this article is about designing & building a bright, adjustable flicker candle. I’ll let you in on a secret: the candle itself is only a foil. Dig deeper and you will find the untapped potential (in most theatres) of the hardware at the heart of the effect: an open source microprocessor....
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