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I need your help – November PixelPyros dates available

We’ve just heard that one of the PixelPyros tour locations is having trouble with its funding so may have to cancel, which could leave us with a gap in our schedule for November. So I’m asking for help – if you know any event, council or company that might want a digital interactive fireworks display […]

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PixelPyros development – working with lasers part 2

In the first part of this series, we looked at the basics of how scanning lasers work, so now we’ll cover the equipment that you need and how it all connects together. Photo: FFP Laser systems Reminder : lasers are dangerous and you can permanently damage your retina. If you’re interested in working with lasers, […]

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PixelPyros development – working with lasers part 1

Photo : Dave Wilson Over the next few weeks I’ll be working hard on new features of PixelPyros, and I thought it’d be fun to share what I’ve learned. I’m going to start with lasers. Because, well, because lasers. First, a quick word of warning: Lasers are dangerous and you can seriously damage your eyes […]

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PixelPyros digital fireworks – tour funded!

Thanks to your amazing response to my request for help finding venues, I’m excited to announce that the PixelPyros tour is now definitely happening – we have 9 dates in 5 UK cities across two months starting at the end of September. It’s been an insanely busy time – as soon as we had a […]

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Securing my WordPress sites

I’ve recently had a horrible bout of spam bots attacking CreativeJS.com, so I thought I’d write a (rather mundane but hopefully useful) post about what I’ve done to combat them, as much to serve as a reminder to myself as much as anything. Robot attack by flickr.com/donsolo TL;DR Install Anti-spam plugin Install All in One […]