Doug Fleenor Design Introduces DMX Controlled Gaff Tape

DMXGAFF, a Doug Fleenor Design exclusive, brings this useful tape product into the 21^st century. Now, with digital multiplex control, Gaff tape can be used for so much more than removing lint from velvet costumes.

The product uses one (eight bit mode) or two (sixteen bit mode) DMX channels to specify the length desired. The user simply sets the DMX level from 0 to 255 (eight bit mode) or from 0 to 65535 (sixteen bit mode) to represent the required length. The user then utilizes an appropriate measuring device, calibrated in the units hoped for, to determine the cut point for the tape. It’s that easy!

The DMX start address is factory set to a random number between 001 and 512. Therefore, since the DMX address is unknown to the user, an entire DMX Universe is consumed. Alternately, the user could attempt a simple binary search to determine the start address, but since there are no operational indicators, this may be problematic (see app. note #4-1-11 for more information).

DMXGAFF is made in the United States of America entirely from components and materials made in the United States of America or elsewhere.

Learn more about the Doug Fleenor Design DMX Controlled Gaff Tape by visiting www.dfd.com.

Cooper Controls Release Level 6 Android Remote

Cooper Controls are pleased to announce the launch of their new Android Remote for Level 6.
Following the fantastic feedback for their ZerOS Remote for Android application launched last month, Zero 88 have developed a method for controlling their entry level control product, the Level 6 DMX, using an Android mobile device.

The Level 6 Android Remote enables control of channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, together with a Grand Master function. As an added feature, controls on the Level 6 Android Remote go to 11, for when you need that extra brightness.
As the Level 6 DMX does not support networking, the engineers at Cooper Controls have designed a method for communicating between the Level 6 and the Android tablet. This new technology, known internally as the Human Android Neurological Device (H.A.N.D.), provides the optimum interface for linking the operator directly to the Level 6 DMX. An expandable design, multiple H.A.N.D.s can be utilised to grow your system to control more lights, along with multiple Level 6s. For professional lighting designers, an accessory for H.A.N.D. has been developed – the Growing Lx Operators Vast Ego (G.L.O.V.E.). By using G.L.O.V.E, professional designers can take a truly ‘H.A.N.Ds off’ approach.

For extremely large systems, it may be preferable to order an Android Sustaining Support Instance (Student) To Automate Neurological Transfer (A.S.S.I.S.T.A.N.T.) to provide a distance between the Android and the Level 6. A.S.S.I.S.T.A.N.Ts are now available from all major drama colleges, and come with a 3 year ‘return to base’ warranty. In the event of malfunction, simply send your A.S.S.I.S.T.A.N.T. back to their origin for reprogramming.

You can download the Level 6 Android remote from the Android Marketplace from April 1st.

Barbizon Lighting Debuts the World’s Brightest Broadcast/Film LED Fixture

Barbizon Lighting today revealed the intent to develop, manufacture, and distribute a new line of LED based
lighting fixtures called the Eta Carina line for the film video market segment. Barbizon’s plan is to reveal the fixture at this year’s NAB show April 11-14. Quietly over the last year Barbizon Lighting has recruited a team to build, hands-down, the most efficient, brightest flexible LED luminaire for use in film and video production.

The team includes:

• Nano-technologists with deep understanding of solid-state lighting who are using nano structures to create white light LED arrays with a CRI of 95+.
• Optical engineers who have developed high gain lenses utilizing Wavefront-guided LASIK technology to multiply the focusing power of the LED’s lensing system, by optimizing lenses with a spatially varying correction, guiding the computer-controlled excimer laser with measurements from a wavefront sensor. Based on their results, the team has successfully used WFG-Lasik to amplify the LED output exponentially.
• A thermal dissipation team who’s sole goal was to keep the system cool and without divulging too much of the patent-pending system, have miniaturized a cooling technology originally developed by Cray Computers that uses a ‘plasma’ to cool components. The new system uses Moore’s Law and nano-tubes specifically knit to dissipate heat from the circuit.
• Lastly an industrial design group with talent culled from industrial packaging to the auto and aerospace industry to develop a housing that can be used indoors or out that is easy to set-up and focus.

“We took almost a year to get it just right and ready for the industry. It’s also been so hard to not tell anyone what we’ve been up to.” says Tobin Neis, Marketing director for Barbizon. “The reigning “brightest star” in our galaxy is the Eta Carina, with a whopping solar wattage of 4.7 million suns. This is how our new fixture stacks up to the next closest competitor.”

Barbizon’s President Jonathan Resnick told us, “Look, we used our market position and customer base in television and film to determine where the white space was for this fixture. We also could see first hand where our now competitors fall short and where we could improve on their mistakes. There’s no doubt about it, this fixture is going to change this industry – everyone else will now be in our shadow.”

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