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Take a look at the video David Henry of Learn Stage Lighting made to introduce lasers to beginners! Featuring safety and legal compliance, an explanation of how to use the laser, and a demonstration. Curious? Click the link below to watch his video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-K3oJoLnY&feature=youtu.be Other useful links: https://www.learnstagelighting.com/how-to-begin-with-lasers/ LearnStageLighting YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1waxWgPLQJv7UVBe9dr5cg...

 Look no further for a how-to on creating a laser countdown for your New Year’s celebration! Check out our YouTube video for a tutorial using Pangolin’s Quickshow.   This quick and easy tutorial walks through choosing the right type of clock, adjusting the timeline to allow for effects, and scaling...

Part two of our lighting networking essentials series is now live! Specifying and Setting Up a Lighting Network.In this part of the series we cover specifying your lighting network to provide enough bandwidth, the differences in how some fixtures handle physical networking connections and how to play out your network layout. In part three we'll cover how to troubleshoot common networking issues.

The annual report, every laserist dreads it but there's no need to. We made a clear and simple guide to walk you through the process and help you keep your variance in good standing. Check it out at www.x-laser.com/annualreport

More and more stage lighting fixtures are controllable by Art Net and Streaming ACN than ever before. This connectivity can provide for faster load ins, simpler cabling and faster programming, all you need is to understand a bit of basic networking. We've created a three part series to introduce the essentials of networking with a focus on the elements relevant to stage lighting networks. In this first part of the series we cover the fundamentals of networking in general, covering the layers of a network, basic architecture and the components of a network. In parts two and three we'll cover how to specify and setup a stage lighting network as well as how to troubleshoot common networking issues.

If you're into lasers, you should already be following Smarter Every Day. He's got a ton of incredibly cool and educational videos and his latest is no exception. Destin does a great job of explaining internal reflection and it's relationship with angle of incidence.

How bright is a 20 watt laser on the wall? The answer as always is "it depends" but instead of just explaining it, here's a quick video to show you how much the ambient light level affects laser brightness.

The builders of Mercury grant lighting designers unparalleled control of lasers by direct DMX, but like any toolbox proper organization is key to efficiency and speed. We've worked with several lighting designers to make our MA profiles more intuitive and powerful! These videos will show you the changes we made.

One of the questions we get all the time at X-Laser is “How do laser projectors actually work?” so we made a short video explaining how scanning and color mixing work together to create the shapes we all love. We go through the layout and basic components common in most modern semiconductor laser light show projectors, then talk a bit about the specific signals used to control galvanometer scanners and laser diodes while showing you exactly how a circle is made.