Instant Party: Home Made Modular Light Up Dance Floor!
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Although we all know that DMX was totally cool in 1999, his light up dance-floor in the music video Whats My Name was out of this world. The circular dance-floor was comprised of concentric rings that lit up in a chasing pattern. Although the solution was a drastic improvement on the classic Saturday Night Fever dance-floor, it still had room for improvement.
Modularity Is Your Friend!
To Improve on the DMX floor, and to make it transportable and reconfigurable, it needed to be modular. Although Brian Witlin, Stanford Product Designer and co-founder of Grooveking.com, initially thought to make a circular dancefloor with pie shaped pieces, he found having a more unique geometry with various sized trapezoids was a better solution. (click image above to see video of dancefloor)
A 12 Foot Diameter Light Up Dance Floor to a 60 Foot Light Up Modeling Runway
His final design comprises of 17 pieces. The geometry of these sections allows the 12 foot diameter light up dancefloor to be reconfigured into stage and even a 60 + foot runway for those breakout dance offs. The pieces utilize a reconfigurable electrical daisy chain undercarriage that can be connected to any piece from any side. This allows for a four channel chaser box to have a nearly infinite chasing pattern possibilities when plugged into the dancefloor.What is the Point?
The Grooveking project, found at Grooveking.com, is a tee shirt site featuring a group of progressive product designers, architects, and graphic designers. Our mission is to uplift the human spirit through thoughtful imagery and humor. Our side mission is to make kick ass products that do the same. We do not take donations, but will be happy if you buy some of our shirts to fund future fun projects like this one. Go to Grooveking.com. Much Love!
Update on This Post
We have recently been featured on the Make Magazine website for this post! I would like to apoligize to those who were looking for a true "how - to" on making your own modular light up dancefloor. Stay tuned, however, I will try to put one together. Thanks for visiting!
posted by News Guy at 5:39 PM - permalink
6 Comments:
that's cool
When do we get a how-to guide!?
I will get the how to guide when I go back to chicago and can take more detailed pictures. I apoligize for not doing a formal how to for this one. Stay tuned!
Any word on the How to guide yet?
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