High voltage · Open flame
AMPWorks Studio
High-voltage electric phenomena, propane flame effects, and the hardware and software that drive them — by Adam Phelps.
Featured projects
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LightbringerA Burning Man mutant vehicle — an art car wrapped in LED lighting and propane flame effects, rebuilt and refined across multiple years.
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HMTLAn Arduino-based hardware and software framework for building, controlling, and networking LED lighting and propane flame effects.
Recent posts
- March 24, 2022 Lightbringer 2022 Application Notes
The big differences between 2018 and 2019 was a substantial change to the front of the vehicle and a reworking of the lower decorations to better cover the frame of the base vehicle’s bed. Additionally we managed to get some of the flame effects running in time, which will be substantially improv…
- March 31, 2019 Lightbringer 2019 Application Notes
While the application doesn’t allow for Facebook links, hopefully links to additional images hosted there is acceptable: The Lightbringer’s Facebook group A great drone video of the Lightbringer on playa Miscellaneous photos at BM 2018
- March 19, 2018 Lightbringer 2018 Application Notes
The info provided with the initial pre-build application can be found here. More info for this year will be presented here shortly.
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March 15, 2017 Mutant Vehicle NotesI’m using this to post a few notes and photos related to a mutant vehicle application I’m putting in for this year’s Burning Man. This post is really just for collecting additional data for the application, I’ll fill in more details later. Links Previous post regarding the control system for lig…
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March 2, 2015 Lights and FireFor a while now I’ve been working on an Arduino based software and hardware framework to control projects I’ve been working on. This started with controllers for the flame effects I’ve brought to Burning Man and several regional events (plus my wedding), and expanded to include interactive table-…