LumiGeek

Category: Gallery

Welcome to the LumiGeek gallery pages. Prior to founding LumiGeek in the beginning of 2013, JoeJoe Martin and John Parts Taylor worked individually and together on a multitude of LED and physical-computing projects. It was these projects that inspired us to form LumiGeek and share our LED technology with the world.

  • The Nautilus by 5-Ton Crane

    The Nautilus by 5-Ton Crane

    This exquisite art car was commissioned by Christopher Bentley and designed by Sean Orlando.

    An iPad mounted into the dashboard of the con-tower controls eight different zones of RGB lighting on the vehicle, as well a banks preset color schemes.

    The iPad uses a serial cable to communicate with JoeJoe Martin’s circuitry. This system was partial inspiration for the LumiGeek 4xRGB LED Strip shield. Pat Barry’s iPad application has since evolved into a framework to communicate with various LumiGeek products.

  • Candelaphytes by Michael Christian

    Candelaphytes by Michael Christian

    Oakland-based sculptor, Michael Christian, has a long history of collaboration with LumiGeek co-founder, Joe Martin.

    The towering kinetic sculptures, Candelaphytes, stand over 30′ tall with 32 individually addressed sections of color-changing LED strip. Video-based patterns are played from an SD card through a custom system designed by Martin.

    This project was some of the inspiration for LumiGeek’s 4xRGB Strip shield, with hopes that providing access to this technology would inspire future artists to experiment with dynamic lighting.

  • Puzzle PCB Invitation for Red Bull Creation

    Puzzle PCB Invitation for Red Bull Creation

    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 blinked morse code that hinted at a password for an encrypted ZIP file that mounted over USB. From there, more and more clues revealed themselves as they poked and prodded deeper into the mysterious package.

    The folks at the i3-Detroit hackerspace did a very thorough tear-down of the puzzle board:

  • http://i3detroit.com/wi/index.php?title=Red_Bull_Creation_2011
  • Bliss Dance by Marco Cochrane

    Bliss Dance by Marco Cochrane

    This sculpture debuted and Burning Man 2010 and has since found a semi-permanent home on the Great Lawn on Treasure Island in San Francisco.

    There are over 30 DMX-controlled LED floodlights. In the interactive mode, an iPad application by Pat Barry allows participants to “finger paint” on the screen and light up the sculpture in real-time.

  • Lantern Strand by Joe Martin and Dave Umlas

    Lantern Strand by Joe Martin and Dave Umlas

    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.

  • Infiniti Tree to tour with Cirque du Soleil

    Infiniti Tree to tour with Cirque du Soleil

    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.

    Infinitree on tour with Cirque du Soleil by One Hat One Hand
    Infinitree on tour with Cirque du Soleil by One Hat One Hand
  • Hurakan by Syd Klinge and John Taylor

    Hurakan by Syd Klinge and John Taylor

    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.

  • Interactive Palm Trees in Jack London Square

    Interactive Palm Trees in Jack London Square

    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.

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