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I got these cute little 30-watt amplifiers - it's the
little half-spherical thing next to the speaker.
I'll be using 2 of these amps, driving 4 speakers.
Each speaker will play the music being generated by
the dance pad closest to it.
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A pile of light rope.
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A pile of PVC pipe joints.
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The frame of the lyre fills the living room floor.
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The base of the lyre - there will be ropes from the
top of the lyre, so the base doesn't have to keep it upright,
although this still might be not be wide enough.
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To plug the lights in and connect them individually
to the MIDI relays, I hacked up some power strips and
3-prong adapters. One connection on each adapter goes
to the plug attached to the side of the power strip.
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The other side the power strip.
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This is the circuit board which takes MIDI in and
converts it to signals that drive the relays.
I purchased the ciruit board, but made the case from scratch.
is taking and how long the battery will last.
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This is the bank of relays. Again, I bought the
board, but made the case from scratch. Here,
only 6 of the relays are actually connected.
The device above the box is something that measures
power usage (amps, watts, etc). This is coming
in very handy to judge how much power everything
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We have ignition. The first light is lit.
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The first 6 lights are now connected and flashing under MIDI control.
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All 24 light-ropes are now set up.
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6 lights per strip, 4 strips, all wired for connection to the relay box.
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The computer and synthesizer I'll be using.
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The controller and relay board, in their boxes.
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Same boxes with the covers on.
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The case I'm putting all the electronics in.
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| Holes on one side for fans. |
| Holes on the other side for intake. |
| And the box is filled to the brim with cords
and electronics. |
| At night, the lights in the box will look
kinda cool, but I'll need more lights when I need to see what's going on.
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| Here's one of the two curly-Q's that will
go at the top of the lyre. |
| The two curly-q's are laid out on the
floor in the appropriate position, but my living room isn't tall
enough to raise the entire structure!
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| TADA! The body of the lyre is raised for the
first time. The strings need tightening, it appears. |
| Some context, to show how it fills
the living room. Our ceilings are 9 feet high. |
| At the base, I've got a couple of shallow
white boxes to hide (and protect) the ugliest part of the wiring.
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| Now I've got the side parts added on, and some
crude support for the top bar. The curly Q's will attach
to the top-left and top-right corners, and will extend upward several feet.
I changed the strings so they are single-strands rather
than double-strands. The double-strands seemed almost blindingly bright,
when flashed at high speed, especially at close range, so I wanted to
tone them down a bit. I will take the original double-strands, though,
to burning man, in case I need/want more brightness.
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| You can see the dance pads here. It's getting
hard to fit the entire thing in a picture.
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I covered the dance pads in fabric, and put
some pictures of the Muses on them. Then covered them in 20mil (I think
that was it) clear plastic. I have thicker translucent pads, if this
plastic isn't strong enough.
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Two weekends before burning man - I set it up in the driveway, as a trial
run. Here the pieces are laid out.
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Ta da! This was the first time I actually assembled and saw the whole thing.
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