A bit of a sad background to this post – the venue we originally made this for will shortly be closing down, though I’d have to thank them for being very clear and upfront about this even though we were significantly down the road towards completing their custom commission.
But it also highlights how we really are able to turn our hands to anything vaguely sign related, and our in-house electronics capability (would have!) brought this in on time and even slightly under-budget. Anything, Anywhere, Any Time!
So these are a set of US-style pedestrian crossing signs, that we were able to re-create using a set set of vintage 1980s (actually, they are stamped 1986 on the plastics, so pre-unification but almost certainly West German in origin) loading bay / underground car park traffic lights.
They are powered using a 24VDC power supply and a SIEMENS (very appropriate given the origin of the lights) LOGO! mini programmable device. We are using the very basic version that has transistor, rather than relay, outputs, so is also completely silent in operation.
The signal will operate in a typical sequence randomly every 150 seconds or so, but also on demand by pressing the button on the box. Here I hit the button and then leg it round the table to start recording!
