One box. Audio, video, GPIO, DMX. Hit go. If your current rig is QLab on a single Mac, an Arduino somebody set up before they quit, or six-figure gear you can’t afford to expand — we should talk.
We ran haunts before we built haunt gear. Every choice on this list came out of a 2 a.m. fix in a maintenance bay somewhere.
Every show runs on the venue’s local 10.0.0.0/24 network. No internet, no cloud login, no licensing ping while a queue is moving through your prop.
Conformal-coated PCBs, watchdog timers in firmware, automatic restart on power blip. Rated to keep firing cues at 60 °C inside a sealed attic.
Cuemaster opens in whatever browser the operator already has. Live node status, last cue fired, last error — on the iPad, the kiosk, the box office laptop, all at once.
Diff them in git. Stage tomorrow’s edits on a laptop. Ship to the rack in one click. If tomorrow goes sideways, last week is one checkout away.
No tier-one phone tree, no chatbot, no ticket sitting in a queue for 48 hours. The person who answers can read the log, push the firmware, and ship a replacement.
Boards are pick-and-placed on a bench you can drive to. Average RMA turnaround is four business days. The person who built it is the one who fixes it.
Pick the nodes you need for the room. They speak the same protocol, configure from one JSON file, and keep firing when the booth laptop is closed.
The brain. Holds the show file, talks to every node, fires every cue, exposes the dashboard. One server, one show, one place to log in.
Plays cued audio to balanced line out. Triggered by any event in the show.
Plays cued video to HDMI. One per screen. No render farm. No Resolume license.
Pulse a relay. Read a button. Switch a maglock. The Pi-with-a-relay-hat hack, but documented.
DMX-512 out. sACN and Art-Net in. Merges cleanly with your existing console.
Show Start, Show Stop, Show Reset, Maintenance Key, Server Reset. USB-serial to Core. The thing the operator hits when the iPad froze.
Desktop show designer (Win/Mac) for programming. Browser dashboard for the booth. Bundled with Core. No per-seat license. No per-cue billing. No subscriptions.
Three rooms over there. Six up the road. A 90‑minute walkthrough that runs four shows a night, twelve nights in October.
Most projects need more than the rack. Cable runs through finished walls. Speakers tuned to the room. A second 20‑amp circuit that nobody planned for. We do the rest of it.
From a sketch on a napkin to a stamped bill of materials. We pick the nodes, draw the rack, and lay out the wire run before anything ships.
Speakers, projectors, fixtures, console. We’ll spec the gear, run the cable, and tune the room. Or just patch into what you already have.
Drop panels, pop-ups, animatronics, scenic gags. Wired to GPIO Nodes, fired from the show, logged when they trip.
We fly out, rack the gear, run the cables, program the show, and stay through opening night. We sleep in the venue if we need to.
One day on the dashboard for the booth staff. Two days on the show designer for whoever’s programming. Cheat-sheets we keep editing.
Pre-season tune-up visit, spare parts on a shelf, RMA on a four-day turnaround. We replace the board, not the rack.
If you’ve worked with us before, you’ve probably been to one of these. If you haven’t, this is the map.
Projects, devices, contracts, downloads, training.
Knowledge base, FAQs, getting started.
Submit, track, and message on every support issue.
Return-material authorization and bench repair tracking.
Integrator and dealer program tiers.
Interactive product demos in your browser.
Reference for every component, API, and admin task.
Show designer, operator dashboard, firmware, release notes.