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Celebrate 4th July with Astraware Fireworks

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2008-07-02 09:37:37 by Matt in Tracy and Matt's Blog
...Fireworks is available again for a limited time Astraware Fireworks is a simple FREE application, showing sequences of fireworks flying and exploding into the air. As 4th July is traditionally a time for fireworks and celebrations in the USA, the features have been created to help our American friends highlight one of their major holidays -...
 
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SHIFT: What we can learn from China's fake Olympic fireworks (hint: it's not what you think)

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2008-08-14 18:57:27 by SE Kramer in DVICE
...fireworks in the opening ceremonies were actually CGI animation . A series of 29 footprint-shaped fireworks really did "march" across Beijing last Friday night (which I wrote about for Popular Mechanics' website ), but the television audience only saw a few of them. Instead, they watched 55 seconds of a prerecorded rendering of what the...
 
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Astraware Fireworks - finally a way for Agoraphobics to celebrate July 4th inside with their Palm, Windows Mobile or Blackberry

2008-07-02 21:00:00 by Wayne Schulz in Gear Diary
 
...fireworks. Whether youre deathly afraid of venturing outside or are just tired of mosquito bites and large 4th of July crowds - heres a way to watch fireworks in the comfort of your home. Astraware has released their free software that displays fireworks on your Palm, PocketPC, Windows Mobile or Blackberry smartphone. The software shows...
 
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Fourth of July preview: DVICE behind the scenes at huge fireworks extravaganza

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2008-07-03 13:58:12 by DVICE Staff in DVICE
...fireworks, folks. Thousands of 'em. Want to see them go off? Head on back to tomorrow when DVICE dons the fire suit and hardhat in Milwaukee tonight for one of the most explosive fireworks displays ever, giving you an up-close behind-the-scenes look at the tech of setting fire to a huge fireworks display involving four simultaneous launching...
 
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Pyro DIY - Fireworks Ignition Control System using Parallax SX48!

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2008-09-27 22:05:09 by max in zedomax.com
...fireworks. Well, all those fireworks are nowdays controlled by an ignition control system but heres how to make one for yourself At the heart of my firework ignition system is an SX48 running at 50 MHz. I was able to make full use of the SXs 36 IO pins. Thirty lines are dedicated to the 30 channels. Two lines connect to a MAX233 chip for...
 
Tags: sx48, system, sx48 proto board, ignition control system, fireworks, firework ignition system, serial port control, pyro diy, pyro
 
 
 
 
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Chemists Develop Environmentally Friendly Fireworks

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2008-03-17 11:00:00 by Lisa Zyga in Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
Scientists are creating fireworks made of chemicals that don't pollute the atmosphere. These environmentally friendly fireworks could also offer better color quality and intensity than conventional fireworks Technorati Tags
 
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Explosions Up Close: Huge fireworks show lights up 4th of July eve

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2008-07-04 11:02:34 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...fireworks display organizations in the country. We were right next to the team of more than two dozen pro pyrotechnicians as they lit up over 10,000 bombs over Milwaukee last night Jeff Bartolotta was the composer of last nights extravaganza, more of a fiery and explosive ballet in three acts than a mere fireworks display. To choreograph his...
 
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China digitally fakes 2008 Olympics fireworks

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2008-08-11 15:54:27 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...fireworks display was exceptional, but those watching at home were tricked into thinking what they saw was real, when some of it was actually CGI The fakery was unearthed by a local Chinese newspaper, The Beijing Times, which revealed that a 55-second sequence was created by a visual effects team, which included a series of giant footsteps...
 
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Fireworks 'Faked' on TV

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2008-08-11 12:01:56 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
...fireworks looked on our television screens, it's disheartening to learn most of what we saw was a computer-generated illusion The Telegraph picked up a story in the Chinese newspaper the Beijing Times giving away that filming the 29 firework footprints from the air would have been impossible. So visual effects artists spent a year creating a...
 
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