In the November 2010 Issue:

• Introduction
• PangoBright
• The Pangolin Shows Portal
• Powered by Pangolin Updates
• Make the Right Connections
• Coming soon from Pangolin

Introduction

Welcome to the 3rd issue of the Pangolin Post! The year 2010 has been quite a year for Pangolin, as we have continued our quest to create award winning products that are used to power your events.

This year has marked some great memories for us. We released Lasershow Designer QuickShow in November of 2009, and it is clear that users have grown to love this platform. Our goal of creating a system that was powerful, affordable, and easy to use was no easy task. There were at least six man years put into the development of QuickShow, but the end result has proven to be worth the effort. We are proud to announce that in 2010 QuickShow won the highest place awarded for ILDA’s Fenning Award for Technical Achievement.

In addition to developing award winning products, we here at Pangolin have been on the road, proudly exhibiting at a variety of tradeshows throughout 2010.

We started with the Photonics West show in San Francisco, where we displayed LASORB, the ESD protector for laser diodes. In March, we made the trip to Germany, to exhibit at the Prolight + Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany, followed shortly after by PALME in Dubai. At these latter two shows, we featured our full product line, including LD2000, QuickShow, and our .NET hardware

Following these shows, we journeyed to the Far East, where we once again displayed LASORB, at the Laser Expo 2010, in Yokohama, Japan. After that, it was back to China, for PALM in Beijing. We also made appearances at the 2010 ILDA Conference hosted by LaserNET, aboard Carnival Cruise Line’s Destiny Ship… And this past September, our President and CTO; Mr. William Benner made a special appearances at the Laser-Freak conference in Regensburg, Germany, and at the SELEM conference in North Carolina to show Pangolin’s support for the community of laser hobbyists. We are just now returning from successful exhibitions at Prolight + Sound, Shanghai, and LDI in Las Vegas.

We would like to thank all the visitors who took the time to join us at these tradeshows throughout the year….We enjoyed seeing you there!

We are now connecting with people around the world using Social Media. We invite you to fan us on Facebook, watch our videos on YouTube, and Tweet on our Twitter page.

Want to control you monitors brightness?
Get PangoBright for FREE!

If you work in controlled environments like nightclubs, theaters, or planetariums where lighting is important, then you have got to try PangoBright -- a free Windows utility used for setting the brightness of your main screen as well as external monitors. You can choose which screens will be set to the selected brightness level. PangoBright is small and easy on your processor (the EXE is only around 100 Kbytes). It has one job, and one job only: to dim your screen(s). PangoBright is perfect for nightclubs and DJs, theater lighting and planetariums, or anyone working in the dark using multiple monitors.

Check out the PangoBright website, at www.PangoBright.com

Download and share laser shows for FREE,
using the new Pangolin Shows Portal!

After much anticipation, we are proud to announce that the Pangolin Shows Portal is finally here! This website allows existing Pangolin users to upload or download their favorite laser shows, frames, and animations to share with each other. And best of all its FREE! There has been a huge demand from the laser industry to have a portal where users could share content with each other and we have stepped up to provide this great solution.

Before its initial release, and before it was formally announced to the industry, the Pangolin Shows Portal had garnered hundreds of users across who had already signed up, speaking volumes for just how big the demand for a show portal has been. We made the show portal very easy to navigate. Content categories include beam and graphic shows, frames and animations, workspaces, utility programs, and software updates. The Pangolin Shows Portal is available for all Pangolin clients, including LD2000 and QuickShow users.

You can find the Pangolin Shows Portal at
www.PangolinShows.com.

Check it out and let us know how you like it.

Are Your Shows Powered by Pangolin?
These venues and events are!

The Powered by Pangolin website was created to showcase the awesome venues, shows, and interesting applications that are Powered by Pangolin systems. We felt that our readers would be interested in seeing the work done by fellow Pangolin users, and created this website to display their creativity. If you have used a Pangolin system in an extraordinary way, be sure to contact us and have it featured on the Powered by Pangolin page.

Laser Design Productions lights up the Super Bowl

During the Super Bowl XLIV half-time show, The Who lit up the skies of Miami at Sun Life Stadium performing a great array of their classic hits!

Laser Design Productions, along with Executive Producer Ricky Kirshner and Director Hamish Hamilton pulled together a production crew of some of the industry's best staging, lighting, sound and special effects.

Fourteen Pangolin QM2000.NET systems and eight full color lasers were positioned in eight of the radial carts. Eight additional lasers including four 50-watt yags and four of the full-color air cooled lasers were located upstage of the New Orleans Saints (NFC) bench. Diffraction, machidda and beam chases filled the arena with lasers. Fourteen Pangolin QM2000.NET systems were all networked at a central control under the main stage.

LaserNet Rocks Carnival Cruise Lines

LaserNet has hooked up Carnival Cruise Lines’ new 130,000-ton Carnival Dream to introduce the line’s first outdoor laser shows that will combine the latest in laser technology with rock music, to provide guests a unique and exciting nighttime entertainment experience.

Four all-weather LaserNet ScannerPro lasers are positioned high atop Carnival Dream’s Lido Deck. Each high-wattage laser is independently computer controlled using Pangolin LD2000 software that synchronizes the lasers in perfect time with the music, which is amplified by the 70,000-watt sound system of the ship’s Seaside Theatre LED screen. The Seaside Theatre’s jumbo-sized monitor also displays custom-designed graphics and original music videos of the various artists played during the show.

Take a look at all of the updated sections on our
Powered by Pangolin page

Make the Right Connections.
Check out the Projector Connections Article

We want to make sure you are connecting your projector the right way. Take some advice from one of the industry’s leading experts and Pangolin President, William Benner.

This article is intended to be a guide for projector manufacturers on the best way to assemble components to create a laser projector conforming to the ILDA Standard Projector (ISP) specification. It may also be interesting to many laserists, as it provides a good insight into how projectors work and the components involved.

Read the full article here.

Coming soon from Pangolin

QuickShow version 2.0

We will be releasing the latest update to QuickShow, version 2.0. This update will be packed with lots of new features, including:

• A new workspace with additional content,
• The all new Virtual LJ feature allowing you to automatically trigger cues and affects to the beat of the music.
• Also new color controls to support RGV (red, green, violet) and TTL lasers.
• And the ability to Control up to 9 projectors, each with their own FB3.
• And a whole lot more!

LD 2000 version 5.5

For all of our Professional users out there, we have not forgotten about you! We are working on the next update for LD2000, which will be version 5.5. The update will include:

• Updates to Lasershow Converter MAX
• Updates to Lasershow Converter Flash
• Updates to Lasershow Converter 4D
• Updates to the QMX, mini DMX console
• More than ten additional laser shows
• And a whole lot more!