STEAM-fx Collective

Project Examples:

Below are various examples of hacked electronic stage effects developed by the STEAM-fx Collective, many of which have been under production booth control.

A STEAM-fx member typically teams up with a local venue's production team, mainly collaborating with the director and/or choreographer (to understand and negotiate the production's vision), set designer and construction lead (to integrate an electronic effect into the production as seamlessly and unobtrusively as possible, with a mind toward each department's desire to reuse materials), and with the lighting designer and properties lead (to meld an effect into the production's stage dynamics).

Time-Travel Clock from our Almonte member (George)

This was an 11th hour request for a high school play. Nailed it!

John's take on time-travel.

This Arduino-driven version is destined for the Art Wall

Ha ha: Take #2 on "John's take"

The servos that I had on-hand were, surprisingly, too weak to handle a slightly misaligned clock gear; and those servos were more than a little frustrating to convert from 180 degree service to 360 degree continuous service. Though the STEAMakers lab now has a few more hefty servos, at the time to my re-attempt all I had on-hand was a 12 volt DC motor and, as luck would have it, an unused 2 channel H-bridge motor driver. Yeh!