LightSync Multimedia

Video - Quicktime Format (12mb): This video shows our four colored lights connected to the system, and playing a short automatic light sequence (using Beatfinder) via the front-end software along with He's a Pirate by Klaus Badelt (from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack). (Four channels are unused) This song shows some amazing synchronization by the software automatically to the beat. The volume is low in the beginning but gets louder.

Video - Quicktime Format (16mb): This video shows our four colored lights connected to the system, and playing a short automatic light sequence (using Beatfinder) via the front-end software along with Walking on Sunshine by the Summertime Girls. (Four channels are unused) This is a good demo of how rhythm and interleave are used to overlap light effects.

Video - Quicktime Format (50mb): This video shows our four colored lights as well as a strobe and disco ball connected to the system, and playing a manually-created light sequence. (Two channels are unused) The music is Don't Feel Like Dancin' by Scissor Sisters. This is a long demo - less synchronized (manual) but features disco light and strobe.

Video - Quicktime Format (9mb): This video shows our four colored lights connected to the system, and playing a short manually-created light sequence via the front-end software along with Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) by Abba. (Four channels are unused) This is the best-synchronized manual light demo.

This shows all of the back end parts in their completed form: light controlling computer (freshly painted), head-end control circuits, tail-end control circuit boxes, and four light sockets used for colored lights.

This is the inside of the head-end control circuit box. A switch was added in-line with the 18VDC power to be able to turn off output.

Here is the very attractive plastic box with the control circuits inside. Holes were cut with a rotary cutter to allow the attachment of the sockets, switch, and cable.

The case for the light controller computer, after being sprayed with a clear coat over the flat black paint.

Before the extreme case makeover: a scuffed, discolored case appropriate for a scrap computer, but not for a high-tech lighting device. The HP logo and Intel Inside logo were masked to as to not be painted over - keeping it classy.

Nicole and Ryan pose with the essentially completed head-end control circuit board.

The head-end control circuit board in-progress and in a clamp.

The secretive innards of the tail-end control circuits: the relay and isolating diode have yet to be attached.

Ryan takes his turn soldering on the head-end control circuits. Eight identical circuits take a while to solder!

Nicole has a great time smelling burning flux while soldering the head-end control circuits.

The moment of truth is at hand for this old computer power cable, to be repurposed as a power cable to a tail-end control circuit box.

A neatly-wired outlet (with tab broken in order to wire each outlet separately) and a repurposed computer power cable await their connection to switching circuitry and a phone jack.

Assorted components have yet to be assembled into an amazing feat of technology.