Kody Green sits to down to talk about:

• Theatre Calgary’s Christmas Carol and Sky Turtle

• Kinetic sculpture spinner

• New Showstopper products

Kody building stuff that he designed before he travels around the world to install it…

Harry puts on the cans, scoots up to the mic, and chats about mechanical design at Creative Conners.

Christian pops into the podcast studio to talk about software development. Specifically, we dig into: Spikemark features, the Pendant, and some custom Beckhoff controls.

Steve Hnath sits down with Gareth to chat a bit about what he does at Creative Conners, a bit of his history, and then we dive deep on the Pushstick Mini.

Mike and Gareth are back and bettah than evah.

Topic include:

- Custom camera lifts for ESPN

- Spotline Mini final design and execution

- Custom Floorpockets and sunroofs in California

- Sky Turtle flies to Calgary

- Middel East chain motor challenges

Eek! This was recorded back in April, but got stuck in editing because of some sound quality issues. Enjoy the delayed release. Mike and Gareth discuss:

• A new hoist design for the Marriott resort in Chicago

• Fox News studio automation

• Jesus Christ Superstar custom machinery

• Challenges providing full-service automation

Mike and Gareth are joined by Pete and Nicole on the show floor at USITT in Louisville to chat about automation. Topics include:

• 14 2T chain hoists to pick a big wall

• Pushstick Mini and the Houston Ballet

• Rental inventory is bulking up

• New super-cool OSC features in Spikemark to integrate with QLab and other show systems.

Mike and Gareth are back in the costume shop/podcast studio to discuss more automation on the night of the CCI Holiday Party.

• Rush controls transplant for Ellen

• Chain motors, get your chain motors here

• iPad Pro and sketch tools

  • Concepts

  • Notability

  • MS Whiteboard

  • Scrble

  • Bamboo Paper

  • Autodesk Sketchbook

  • Drawboard PDF

• Stagehand Parameters internal confusion and gnashing of teeth

• Vintage Stagehand challenges in support-land

• Joining the support team!

Mike and Gareth are back to talk about:

• New products shown at LDI

• Our stock Turntable

• ACP/APP

• New web site

• FX firmware updating

• MPE and Position Lag

• New project for 7 Fingers with a big center-drive

• In-shop training for Christmas tours

• The Pushstick Mini is coming

• Job posting: Support

Mike and Gareth chat about

• a rush job involving hydraulics

• another Floorpocket installation

• Thern

• training

• the new web site

• and belatedly mention LDI.