LED Jacob’s Ladder effect for Baltimore Water Ballet

by | Jul 31, 2016 | Art, Engineering

I connected and programmed a set of LED lights and an Arduino to make a Jacob’s Ladder effect for the fluid movement water ballet. The show is called “Science Fair”. The LED strips are of the Neopixel style, though the are an off-brand. They are...

Chasing Ice through Ellicott City MD

by | Jul 31, 2016 | Science, Society

“Yesterday I watched this very well done and visually incredible movie – Chasing Ice – which shows the drastic disappearance of many glaciers. And then I wake up to hear the news of the horrible and historic flooding in Ellicott City. (And we have...

Polarizing Grid

by | Jul 30, 2016 | Engineering

I made a wire grid for polarizing microwave-frequency light. The wires are 0.0014″ = 0.036mm in diameter, spaced 0.0044″ = 0.112mm apart. There are about 1400 wires stretched across the diameter of this ring. The brown crud is flux from soldering the wires...

Mars in 2033

by | Jul 30, 2016 | Art, Engineering, Science, Society

Ron Howard miniseries, futurical fiction about a crewed mission to Mars in 2033. “This November, the National Geographic Channel will take audiences into outer space in a way we haven’t seen before. From producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer comes Mars, a...