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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.

Hey there everyone, Adam here, President of X-Laser. Happy Labor day to you. I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the amazing team at X-Laser that makes what we do possible. Past, present and future, these are the folks that are setting up lasers at trade shows, coding late into the night, soldering resistors smaller than a grain of rice, turning blocks of aluminum into laser parts, even clearing wasp nests out of returned lasers. Thank you for all you do. Also a big thanks to our users who are working today. In this industry, a lot of holidays are work days and we appreciate you. X-Laser is closed today to celebrate, but we'll be back tomorrow morning. Thank you

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

Travel to another galaxy with this new laser show by our summer design intern, Gabby. Programmed entirely on Obsidian Onyx. You're going to want to go full screen for this one

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.

Join us for Lasers Live! Our guest this time is Chris Short, one of the creators of the Radiator. The Radiator is a compact yet feature rich laser synthesizer designed and built by an expert team of hardware designers and artists. Their kickstarter met their funding goal in only 9 days and shows no signs of slowing down as they work to bring abstract laser art to a new generation of artists. We'll be talking with Chris about Radiator, how the project developed and where it's headed now that they've met their funding goals, a Q&A session and of course he's going to make some beautiful laser art for us to enjoy, live!

We gave the latest meme of 2019 a shot. It went about as expected.

We are super excited to share with you a project that some friends of X-Laser have been working on for a while. An innovative and exciting new form of laser analog synth controller, now available to pre-order on Kickstarter! Radiator aims to bring back the live performance aspect to laser shows and once again make the job of Laserist synonymous with performance artist.

By popular request from our users we are doing a limited run of our Mercury laser control system as a standalone controller we're calling Launchpad. This limited edition controller is compatible with all laser systems with an ILDA port and has been designed to be a truly pro grade system. Launchpad offers: Freestanding Mercury control of ANY ILDA equipped projector DMX node functionality Powercon True in/out (so no wall wart PSU) ILDA Input and output Integrated etherStop on both models, the switched version offers an integrated 3 port 10/100 switch as well