Disorient club house with D14 sign in a whiteout. Burning Man, 2022
Disorient D22 club house with D14 sign. Burning Man, 2022
D14 sign still image. Burning Man, 2022
D14 sign, 2022 edition, playing trailwave pattern. Burning Man, 2022
B (Brad) sitting with D14 sign in the D22 club house. Burning Man, 2022
B (Brad) during build week, repairing and modularizing the D14 sign. Burning Man, 2022
9 Pixelblaze V3 controller boards with output expanders, plus JST cables
D14 sign as re-interpreted by diffraction lenses. Burning Man, 2022
The D14 sign was originally made in a previous Disorient project. For 2022 I redesigned its control system using 9 hand-assembled prototype boards each with a Pixeblaze V3 Standard and Output Expander.
The 9 individual letters form a wireless, distributed lighting system without a single point of total failure. A Raspberry Pi creates an access point which all controllers join, and receive pattern/time control signals from the orchestrator.
Patterns are stored and executed locally per controller. Live coding can be done wirelessly using any web browser. Once the changes are ready, the orchestrator can broadcast the updates to the rest of the network.