Class: Intro to Lighting Techniques

The Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest has asked us to put on some classes to help the artists applying for their Arbor Aid call-for-artists. This class is also open to HackPgh members at a discount and the public at large. The first class will be held at the HackPittsburgh shop at 6pm on  August 13. The sign up link is: here.

In this class, you’ll learn about many of the options available for lighting including:

• Light fixtures
  • Demo
  • Sources
  • Basic wiring for lamps, etc.
• LED
  • Demo
  • Colors / Sizes / Types
  • Type of multi-LED modules
  • LED Strips
  • Basic LED wiring
    • Basic how-to use LEDs
    • Parallel vs. Series
    • Voltage issues
• EL Wire –  wires that glow when you power them (they call it “poor man’s neon”)
  • Demo
  • Basic EL Wire wiring how-to
• Fiber Optic Light
  • Demo
  • Techniques
  • Sources
• Dynamic lighting (digitally controlled for patterns etc.)
  • Overview of using an Arduino to produce lighting effects
  • Demo