The Dutch city of Utrecht is the fourth largest in the Netherlands and attracts a significant number of international and domestic visitors each year. One of the most recent additions to its range of entertainment destinations is the glittering new Holland Casino; a striking building adorned in gold. This glamourous new casino blends sophistication with welcoming hospitality, a perfect
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Pharos flies high at Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport is one of the UK’s busiest and most frequented transport hubs. With three passenger terminals and a cargo terminal, the site spans 1,400 acres and runs flights to over 200 destinations, placing it firmly on the global map as an important international hub. The most high-profile aspect of the overall refurbishment is the striking overhaul of Terminal 2, introducing
Bright new entrance for St Enoch
Located in the heart of Glasgow city centre, the St Enoch shopping centre is a very popular retail paradise bursting with outlets offering everything including clothes, homeware, toys, and food and drink. Following a high spec redesign, an LED-based façade now sits above the centre’s entrance on Osborne Street, home to the Vue cinema. The installation is set to provide dynamic lighting effects
Going all-in with one of the world’s largest pillarless ballrooms
The ever-evolving Las Vegas strip is world-renowned for building bigger, bolder, and brighter structures. One of its latest additions, the CAESARS FORUM conference centre, is no exception - spanning a mammoth 550,000 sq. ft and boasting the two largest pillarless ballrooms in the world. As part of the cutting-edge technology integrated into its new event space, CAESARS FORUM is home to one of the
Introducing the SDI (Serial Data Interface)
With the cost of LEDs becoming incredibly low over the past few years, new protocols were developed to drive large numbers of LEDs easily; the SDI was designed to convert our current DMX functionality into an ability to speak these new protocols. This is where serial data comes in; by this, we mean two types; Synchronous Serial Data (also known as SPI, or Serial Peripheral Interface) and
Splitting the EDN
NOTE: the method described below for EDNs also applies to KiNET Power Supplies. The EDN is our new Ethernet Data Node, capable of distributing up to 20 ports of DMX from a Pharos networked control system. As well as a single Controller, such as an LPC 20, sending its output to all the ports on an EDN, we can also combine the outputs of smaller capacity controllers, assigning ports to different