Commissioned as pathway lighting for a northern California music festival, each lantern was individually addressable and controlled by a custom SD card player with video-based colors and patterns.
The lanterns were designed by CuriousCustoms.com and fabricated by JoeJoe Martin. The patterns were by Jason Mika with software support by John Taylor.
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.
As homage to the Mayan god of wind, storm, and fire, Hurakan, is a 40′ tall sculpture that has tamed a tornado of blazing propane. An array of digitally controlled solenoids triggered the propane bursts and injected firework powders, changing the color of the flame.
The control station had e-stop safety switch as well as manual control over the propane. Vintage arcade buttons were wires to control the various solenoids.
In remote-control mode, and iPad could remotely control the solenoids (while an operator was still at the safety station) thus allowing the crowd to interact with the sculpture at the edge of the safety perimeter.
The iPad application was written by Pat Barry and was fully functional with JoeJoe Martin’s solenoid circuitry just two weeks after the iPad was originally released to the public.
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 the grove of palm trees wrapped in LED lights.
The Giant Boombox by Brass Tax was a 30′ long by 12′ tall structure that housed a massive sound system at Burning Man 2009.
The facade of the boombox had real-time servo-driven VU meters, real-time EQ lights, DMX driven mood-lighting, and a custom RFID entry system for the DJ booth and green room.
A collective of artists and fabricators from Austin, Texas wanted to create a highly interactive swing set. JoeJoe Martin created a custom PCB with an accelerometer, a wireless transceiver, and several LEDs. A small battery pack would provide motion reactive light throughout the evening. The swing set boards could also be controlled by a DMX lighting board, by way of a MaxMSP patch.
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.
This custom technology was created for an automated jug-band instrument that was never finished by the artists.
An array of infrared LEDs and detectors were used to generate MIDI signals. Another circuit board then translated these MIDI notes into triggers for relays/solenoids for a blast of compressed air.
