SO IT BEGINS

This brief chat describes the creation and completion of Phase I. As of now, El Grande is being tested in various performance environments as an “atmospheric stage lighting projector.”

Phase II is to soon begin which will add other equally sophisticated electronic devices to make El Grande’s Lumias even more beautiful.

Stay tuned . . . Lumia — all in the eye of the beholder.

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While I designed and fabricated the entire El Grande lumia projector, I got by with a lot of help from my friends:

•	LED EFFECTS		Supplied RGB LEDs, micro processor and color mixing software
	(Sacramento, CA)
•	RotoBrain Engineering		Provided optics consulting, engineering support and fabrication of electronic kits
•	San Francisco Metal Arts		Fabrication of custom designed projector components
	(San Francisco, CA)
•	Dr. Glowire		Consulting and fabrication of electronic kits
	(Light ’N Wire Productions)
•	Simran Gleason		Creator of LumiaBryte, the sound-to-color mixing software package
•	Kenn Cooperman		Fabrication assistance