LED Light Panel

When I was working at Barbizon, I had the chance to take apart one of the Rosco LitePad's and figured how they work. This was me experimenting on how to recreate it. The goal was to make an RGB color mixing, evenly lit panel of plexi.

Exdo Remodel Plots

Not too long after I started working at Tracks, I was given the chance to completely revamp Exdo, our event center. This was the largest project I'd ever been given so I did as much planning as possible. These are the plots I hand drew and had scanned.


This one shows the whole atrium with all the C and I beams. These are the only points where something can be suspended just based on how the structure was built. This is the base of the whole system.

This shows where the unistrut would attach to the beams. Since they're C beams going vertically and they switch orientation half way across, I ended up connecting two pieces together to span the entire room. This would make it impossible to slide off the beam.

This is the main rigging layer. Everything that we suspend from the ceiling gets hung from these pipe grids, truss, or the pipe that goes around the under side of the atrium.

This was what I had planned for the electrical and data runs. We ended up not doing any of it because of cost. 

I had hoped to get enough fixtures and cable to do this plot. It has fixtures in place for runway (pink), shows (orange), spotting/breakups (green), and dance (yellow). I was able to match this minus the Lekos.

Power Con GAMcheck

There was a point where I was making a couple hundred PowerCON cables a week to be sent out with orders at Barbizon. They were for brand new lights so it was crucial to get the wiring right. I fit it all in a project box from Radioshack and used spare parts.

Tracks Lighting Rig

I finally was able to add the last groups of lights to my design for the Tracks remodel. The Intimidators were being used in one of our other spaces. I tried to get a good shot of all the layers we have going on. Here's what we have up there.

x012 - Trackspot 1
x008 - Trackspot 2
x006 - MX-10
x008 - Beam 200 (Sharpy Clone)
x012 - Intimidator LED Spot 250
x008 - Flurry-Q
x006 - Diversitronics Strobe
x048 - RGBW LED Pinspot
x048 - Pinspot
x008 - Truss Warmer
x002 - Paintcan
x004 - 2000mw RGB Laser
x004 - Cryo Jet
x007 - Mirror Ball
x004 - Modified 250w Pinspot

(Not in pictures ground level)
x002 - Color Blasts
x003 - RGB LED cans
x024 - Color Coves
x002 - DF50

Hobo Alcohol Stove

I was bored and made myself an alcohol stove from a couple of beer cans. It's nicknamed the Hobo Stove. There are several tutorials on Youtube if anyone is interested.

Inside the DF-50

It was time to clean the DF-50s again for the club. I decided to take them apart more than I usually do so I could tighten the tension screw on the cage fan and clean under the motor. Thought I would take a picture of the belly of the best.

OUYA Modding Working [ACTIVE]

THE HARDWARE:
OUYA (duh)
SilenX IXN-40C Copper Chipset Cooler
NF-A4x10 Fan
Arctic Silver 7g Premium Silver Thermal Cooling Adhesive
BELKIN F5U407 USB 2.0 4-Port Ultra Mini Hub
Logitech K400 Wireless Touch Keyboard
SYBA SD-CM-UAUD USB Stereo Audio Adapter
Transcend JetFlash 600 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive


THE SOFTWARE:
(list to come)

The goal of this project is to improve cooling, expand storage space, have analog audio out for headphones/speakers, and be able to use a wireless keyboard with a built in trackpad... Except having it be all internal :distracted:

PROGRESS:
Weights removed and mounts dremeled flat
Tegra3 lapped
Heatsink installed
Fan installed
Fan wires spliced to originals (only for the connector really)
USB hub gutted (no case, USB cable, or USB ports)
Removed the back of the Ouya USB shield
Re-routed onboard USB to hub
Routed USB from hub back to rear Ouya USB port
Gutted Logitech unifying RF receiver
Soldered RF receiver to hub
Gutted USB DAC
Soldered DAC to hub


I've also rooted the console and installed the Google Play store. I'm not really focusing on the software quite yet though. The DAC doesn't work at the moment but I've been reading they are working on including USB audio drivers soon. I also need to get the flash drive to mount as an SD card and to do it automatically at boot before I remove the USB connector and solder that internally to the hub as well.

By the way, if you want to get a USB drive for your OUYA, this is the fastest 2.0 drive out there. I did a speed test and the results are pretty damn good.

Stock PCB

Minus heatsink and fan 

USB shield removed and leads cut

USB wires soldered on

Tegra lapped and USB wires hot-glued

Holding the heatsink in place while the thermal adhesive sets. I had to trim it a bit to fit in the case.

USB hub PCB

Removing the USB ports

Leads soldered onto DAC

Hub soldered and glued

RF receiver soldered to hub and glued

It didn't quite fit in. I ended up having to take out the weights and sanding the bottom flat

Test fit

Fan hot glued to heatsink

Wires spliced

All fits so far!

DAC soldered to board

DAC glued in place

Shot with everything installed so far

Reassembled with the keyboard I'm using

Keep checking in for more updates =)