Ian was kind enough to put The Pixelstick through its paces and write an in depth, honest and impartial review to let us all know if its worth the 325.00, check it out below. Click here if you want to visit their Kickstarter page. That was in December of 2013, well just about a month ago veteran Light Painter Ian Hobson got a hold of one of the first production models. Since a photo is worth one thousand words, take a look at the following images to better understand which kind of results you can achieve with Pixelstick.īitbanger labs has already reached their 100,000 $ goal on Kickstarter, but if you wish to fund the project you still have time until December 13. While the long exposure goes on, you just have to move the stick in the wanted directions in order to create the image. What does it mean? It means that you can virtually light paint any shape or picture possible, you just have to convert it in a 198 px height file. Each LED corresponds to a single pixel in the image. Pixelstick’s brain, a small mounted box, reads images from an SD card and displays them, one line at a time.
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Pixelstick consists of 198 full color RGB LEDs inside a lightweight aluminum housing, made of two 3 ft long (91 cm) sections. It’s almost impossible to light paint complex shapes right now, due to the endemic limitations of the technique itself. Light painting is a photography technique where a photographer paints something with a light source during a long exposure photo. Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan of Bitbanger Labs engineered it during the past months and came up with a working prototype that they are trying to mass-produce with the funds of this Kickstarter campaign. The product we are talking about is called Pixelstick, a formidable tool for all the light painting lovers. We feel like we are in front of a small revolution with the tool we are going to talk about in this post, as nothing like that has never seen the light before. It can happen in every kind of niche, it happened in mobile phones industry, in computers industry, in automotive industry and probably in every kind of market ever existed. Viewing a single post? Don’t forget to check out the rest of my website or my prints gallery.Every now and then a revolutionary product steps into the market and changes everything. Not my best ever, but it was cool to see it here for the first time in my life over OC. This stretch of coast line has very few houses and is far enough away from Laguna Beach and Dana point such that the sky is just dark enough for a Milky Way shot. I’ll wrap up with a very rare image of the Milky Way taken from Orange County. I’m pretty excited about what I’ll be able to do in the future as I figure this thing out further. This one was a 30-second exposure using a similar technique: for 15 seconds or so I ran around with a red ribbon image, and for the second 15 seconds I turned on a blue image. This one was made by lighting Kayla first with an all-red light and then running around her position with a red ribbon pattern. Once we started getting better with the device we worked on more interesting concepts. Making simple images is trivial, and to be honest, kinda boring after a while. A number of them involve “burrito shops” or “burrito stores,” so I thought burritos would be fitting for her.
My cousin Lauren has the best stories of anyone in the world. These blinking lights and gradients get turned into interesting patterns, like so:Īnd sometimes the LEDs blink out a row of chalupas, as seen here behind my cousin doing mountain pose (IIRC). Pixelstick has 200 LED bulbs in a strip about 6-feet tall, and as it moves it blinks different patterns. Basically, you keep your camera’s shutter open for a while and it will capture a light source as though it were floating, electric paint. In case you were too lazy to read the website I linked to above, Pixelstick is a modern take on the classic photographic technique of light painting. Since my family is awesome and full of crazy people, and since the beach is open until midnight there, we decided to take my shiny new direct-from-KickStarter Pixelstick for a spin. This past weekend I hosted my family at the beach house (thanks FTS!).
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