LEDs + Snow = Lighting Goodness
If you didn’t already know, the International headquarters and base of operations for iSquint is in Washington, DC. Starting Friday night, the Washington DC metro area was under a blizzard snow warning and expecting one of the heaviest snow falls in recent history. And boy, did we get it! At 6am Saturday morning, there was [...]
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Dr. DMX Develops Green Dimmers
Leave it to the good doctor, Doctor DMX, aka Doug Fleenor Designs, (DFD) to develop a new and interesting product for LDI this year. We all know that Doug Fleenor Design comes out with some pretty remarkable DMX products like the DMX/RDM Coffee Pot and the DMX-a-Sketch at past LDI’s. This year was no let [...]
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Happy Holidays From iSquint
It is that time of the year when we look back and reflect on what a year 2009 has been and all of the wonderful memories we had. It is also a time to be thankful for the loved ones and friends we have. So on this, the 2009 Holiday Season, I want to wish [...]
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Friday Flickr Lighting Porn – Boneyard Prayer
This weeks randomly chosen Friday Flickr Lighting Porn comes from Harold on Flickr. I would love to give Harold a little more credit here, but I just can not find any more information on him! So if you are out there Harold, drop me a line and I will update the article with your info. [...]
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You Pick the Most Innovative Lighting Product for 2009
During 2009, we saw a whole heap of new products introduced into the market place. Just like Time and the AP innovative people of the year, it is time for the industry to pick the most innovative product for 2009. So I am calling on you to help choose the 2009 Innovative Lighting Product of [...]
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Elation Announces Accent LED Strips with Adhesive Backing
Elation Professional just released their latest architectural LED product, the Accent LED strips. The strips are available in tow models, and RGB and a Cool White version. The Accent Strip RGB is a very thin, LED-circuit-strip-tape with nine bright RGB (Red, Blue & Green) LEDs. It can be mounted to almost any surface using it’s [...]
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ConsoleCocktails Releases Cocktail #3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2
During LDI 2009, I got a chance to visit one of the busiest rooms during the week long conference and show at the Orlando Convention Center, The grandMA2 Demo and Training room. I sat down and did an interview with Joe Joe Cabrera ][ and Brian Dowd from ACT Lighting for a future episode of [...]
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Cooper Controls Releases LightFactory Version 2.2
Cooper Controls just recently announced the release of their upgrade to the PC based lighting controller, LightFactory, to version 2.2. LightFactory is a unique PC based lighting control system. Offering a no compromise approach of traditional dimmer control and fully featured moving light support. LightFactory was designed with the idea that every lighting engineer, operator [...]
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Jands Vista Preparing to Release Byron Into the Wild
Back at PLASA 09, Jands Vista introduced their latest software upgrade to their Vista line of consoles, Byron. Jands had demo’s of Byron running at LDI 09, but alas, I did not get a chance to see Byron running in person. But since then, I have meet Byron and he is a pretty cool dude, [...]
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Martin Mac 401 Dual Video
I just saw a great product demo video of Martin Professional’s Mac 401 Dual LED fixture. @MainLight posted the link to the video via their twitter feed and wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to view it. What is so great about the video? Well, don’t expect to learn much more about the [...]
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Zinman Software Updates TCP/IP Remote iPhone App to Version 2.0
Over the weekend I received a note from Zinman Software that Michael has just updated his TCP/IP Remote App for the iPhone and iPod Touch to Version 2.0. I personally love this app not just for the uses in the lighting industry, but also for home “automation”. Since the app works with any device that [...]
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New iPhone App: Lighting Handbook
I just received a note for an iPhone app developer, Andrew Derrington about his new lighting iPhone app, Lighting Handbook. It is a new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, It provides detailed information about moving lights, LED fixtures, Scrollers and more DMX fixtures. It also provides access to the manual direct from the internet. [...]
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