LumiGeek

Our wireless color-changing LED technology was used in a modern rendition of Romeo and Juliet in the Big Apple! LumiGeek worked with artist Robert Bose to create a wireless, rechargeable, ultra lightweight circuit board for his massive outdoor balloon chains. Thanks to collaborator Jon Morris of The Windmill Factory, the balloon boards ended up as […]

The Turbull Encabulator was the qualifier invitation for the third annual Red Bull Creation hackerspace competition. Following last year’s Bullduino – an Arduino Uno clone in the shape of the Red Bull logo – the Turbull Encabulator was an Arduino shield-of-shields, which contained an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, an EPROM, a DAC, and a collection of LumiGeek […]

The Bullduino was an custom board based on the opensource Arduino Uno specification, but shaped like the Red Bull logo. It served as the invitation to the second annual Red Bull Creation contest. Applicants to the contest had to create something with the Bullduino and post a YouTube video. Team Instructable’s “Romance Pants” belt buckle […]

LumiGeek co-founder, Joe Martin, was commissioned to build a larger-than-life 16-segment display with an alpha-numeric keypad for a 62-foot tall vending machine. The massive structure doubled as a stage for the Doritos hospitality lounge and hosted acts such as Snoop Dogg and Ghostland Observatory.

LumiGeek co-founders, Joe Martin and John Taylor, put their heads together in 2011 to come up with a truly unique way to launch the Red Bull Creation hackerspace challenge. The duo created a custom circuit board with a series of puzzles and riddles to point recipients towards the event website. At first, the board only […]

San Francisco based fabrication experts, One Hat One Hand, was approached by Infiniti to commission a sculpture to tour with a vehicle display at Cirque du Soleil. LumiGeek co-founder, Joe Martin, designed a circuit board to play video-based patterns from an SD card to the coiled color-changing LED strip inside each flower blossom.

LumiGeek co-founder, John Taylor, was hired by John Murray Productions in Oakland, CA to make a large installation of Color Kinetics iFlex lights become an interactive LED art pice. Visitors to Jack London Square could request color and pattern combinations through text messages. A custom MaxMSP patch handled the interactivity and the spatial mapping of […]

Prior to founding LumiGeek, Joe Martin and John Taylor collaborated on several design projects for Red Bull. The Xcase, an Xbox gaming system in a customized Zero-Haliburton briefcase, is a perfect example. Designed by Corbett Griffith and John Taylor, the portable gaming system included custom audio and LED hardware from Joe Martin.