Hudson Schlumberger Hudco Lighting
A lighting desk and its monitors in a booth, the room washed red behind the screens

Tools

Things I have built
to solve problems

Tools I have developed on the job, for the job. Before theatre, my passion was coding; these projects are where the two meet.

Wer's preview during a take: the company of The Comedy of Errors on stage, with the cue block, show name, clock and time in cue laid over the picture

Software

Wer

A recorder for lighting techs that listens to an ETC Eos desk over OSC. The camera feed is overlaid with customizable blocks of cue information: the cue number and label, the fade, the command line, the clock. Layouts are built from widgets and switch by hotkey while recording, and every cue the desk fires becomes a chapter marker in the file. Free, for Windows 10 and 11.

The viewAny camera Windows can see, from a webcam to a 4K capture card
The dataEverything the Eos publishes over OSC is captured and can be shown with customizable widgets
The resultA recording of the stage with the cue information on it and a chapter marker on every cue, so a tech can be scrubbed by cue number afterwards
Built withPython, Qt and ffmpeg, all inside the installer - nothing to install first
Read more → Download for Windows
The spot magic sheet and the operator's camera monitor, stage below

Hardware & console integration

spotmon

A remote followspot system. Operators point a moving light by hand from a station built out of a dead one, and the whole spot look lands on a single magic sheet at the console.

The stationMAC 250+ carcass, absolute encoders and an Arduino putting out 16-bit DMX
The routingPan and tilt straight to the mover; iris and intensity through ETCnet into Eos faders
The displayAn Eos magic sheet with palette-driven diffusion and character info, on its own cue lists
In use atBay Street Theater
Read the write-up →

Both are built the same way and for the same reason: something in the room was costing time or money every week, and the fix was small enough to build between shows.

Ask me about either →