To design and build an application like the inMotion Workflow Automation Solution, our developers have to employ detailed planning, rigorous testing, creative problem-solving, and loads of technical talent. Lucky for us, that’s what they do for fun!
The perfect example of those skills is this astonishingly intricate light display envisioned and executed entirely by inMotionNow Senior Developer, Petr Cipera.
After last Christmas, inspired by the light displays of his neighbors and friends, Petr went on YouTube to get some ideas. There he discovered the animated, music-synchronized light displays of Richard Holdman. With visions of LEDs dancing in his head, Petr began his research.
And there was a lot of research to do.
“I didn’t know anything about electrical work,” Petr explains, laughing. Before he began choreographing the lights, first he needed to figure out how to assemble and power his vision. This meant acquiring soldering tools, amp meters, voltmeters, fuses, controllers, guide wires… That was in addition to buying the actual lights. Between the physics and the budgeting, there was a lot of math.
The next step was programming the 10,606 individual LED lights to turn on and change color in sequence. After learning that the size and complexity of his display was too much for most existing software programs to handle, Petr discovered the Hinkle’s Light Sequencer. As a beta tester, he pushed the envelope of what the software could do and helped Joe Hinkle with debugging.
“What was really fun,” says Petr “was using my imagination to figure how my lighting designs in the sequencer would translate to reality.” Judging by the way traffic has picked up in his neighborhood, Petr has a pretty amazing imagination.
Click here to watch the whole display on YouTube!