More old material 🙂
2009 I attended a supplementary course in special effects at PYRO Smålands Krutbruk AB.
We learned how to blow up and flip a car using petrol charges and zinkit + flash powder loaded in a pyretechnic piston that was placed in the ground, partially covered with soil, under the car.
We also blew up a set house with 5g cordtex, flash cracker cal. 21, a pyrotechnic dirt canon, and a petrol charge. Continue reading
More old stuff
This little cute creature is made by Peter at Gothenburg Prop Makers. I helped him to make a servo controller board and to program the radio transmitter.
The larva was exposed in the exhibition hall at Gothenburg Film Studios during the Open set 2010.
Here you can see the "making of" video and the larva in action:
The larva was really popular amongst the visitors, probably because they could try to control it by them self.
Putting up some old material!
I made the pyrotechnic special effects in this trailer for GFS open set 2010.
Open set changed name to GoKinema the following year.
Check out the open set films at Gothenburgs Film Studios vimeo channel!
I don't remember exactly how we got to the point where we came up with the idea to make it into a modular platform, but it had something to do with the ATtiny4313 I think, sounded like a good idea to make it more versatile!
Why stop at making a wireless firing system, right?! 😉
The firing system was originally designed for squibs (SFX body hits), so it's very important that the size is as small as possible to be easily concealed under the actor's clothes.
At first we were stuck with the idea of a wireless firing system, but when we found the ATtiny4313 with "a lot" more memory (4K instead of 2K) than the ATtiny2313, we started to fantasize about what could be done with all that space!
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Last year in April I had the opportunity to get into the project Sprängar Bängtsson, a TV series that is aimed for children and youth.
A pilot episode was made, in which I made a neat little pneumatic cake and cream explosion! 😎
Unfortunately it didn't get aired...not yet that is 😉
A couple of days ago I got a link to vimeo, here is the 3 min intro:
It's been a while since I wrote last time so I thought I'd better put something up!
This was my small contribution to GoKinema this year...
...a Cylon scanner to this über cool robo statue - Cambot 3000.
Anders at Gothenburg Prop Makers made the fantastic robot and I helped him to give it "life"!
The bot is made from old film lamps, lenses, tripods, and old camcorders, it stood in the entry hall at Gothenburg Film Studios during GoKinema. Continue reading
Feels almost unreal, they're so tiny 45x40mm and 45x30mm! I really hope we didn't miss something important or made any critical design flaws! Anyways, here they are!
Igår var jag i "Hallen" och hjälpte Peter att programmera två radiosändare som ska styra en monstermask till ett hemligt projekt 😎
Well, I promised you the story about the fireCrow project.
Fasten your seat belts 'cause here it goes! 🙂
It all started with an idea about making a small and secure 2 channel wireless firing system primary used for squibs (sfx body hits). I didn't thought that there was anything like that on the market, all I knew about was a single channel, made in China system that was quite expensive, lack of security and didn't have a nice form factor (if you aske me).
So i simply started to investigate how to make my own system, what kind of hardware to use and how to put it together, since I didn't have any knowledge about electronics to start with it was like a jungle for me. Continue reading
Yesterday I ordered the PCB's for the fireCrow v2.0 and the PyroFyro 4ch module.
Here below you can see the PCB designs:
