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Even with a modern short-arc lamp and an electronic ballast, you can get a little whiff of ozone when the lamp starts, I'm not sure what the mechanism is.

Carbon arc was definitely a whole different ball game. I'd think the fixtures were filtering at least most of it, or else everyone on set would have pretty much the same problems a…

"Film lights" are pretty likely to be 5kW+ arc lamps. Lighting fixtures definitely include filters to keep the UV out of the beam, but film still loves giant HMI fresnels.

If you're ever interested in publishing anything about this to aid others in recreating it, I'm sure there'd be ample interest (for better or worse). Professional controllers are h…

Our office is near their head office/distribution facility. If we order before noon, most stuff shows up same day.

You'd be surprised what kind of terrible things can happen on a run of DMX cable. I've seen enough transceivers exploded out of their sockets to be wary. The leading US manufacture…

The biggest benefit, in my opinion, of doing puzzles is building pattern recognition. If that obvious dumb guess is consistent for the structure presented in the difficult-but-gues…

Shooting RAW gives you much more freedom to choose how a photo will be processed than letting the camera make some set of default choices about color rendering so it can spit out a…

> "Fresnel" is not a noun. It is in stage and film lighting [0], which made this headline confusing to read. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lantern

They're available[0], but they're expensive [0] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/programmable-disp...

A current limiting resistor isn't ideal for LEDs bright enough for home lighting. It's not very efficient compared to a proper constant-current LED driver. Losing the terrible powe…

There are specific locations where I lose signal extremely consistently. Like the right-turn lane of a road near my office. No bridge, no particularly tall buildings - just a small…

Not to mention being seen as responsible for interpersonal problems among the membership.

Having been on the board of directors of a decently-sized hackerspace, I do not recommend it to folks looking to avoid burnout.

If you're happy with the color, there are also neutral density filters in a variety of transmission levels: http://www.stagelightingstore.com/Rosco-Supergel-398-Neutral...

It's a terminal emulator that's configurable/extendable with JS, HTML and CSS.

This would have been my response. I've got a Pebble and I charge it ~2hrs a week and the time is always visible.