One guy. Orlando.
Tired of duct tape.

The whole story.

I’m Jason. I ran tech for haunts and escape rooms in Central Florida for a decade before this. Spent more nights than I should have running between QLab on a borrowed MacBook, an Arduino with a relay hat I’d soldered the week before, and a DMX console nobody trusted. When the cue didn’t fire at 9 p.m. on a Saturday, I was the one in the booth fixing it.

So I built the box I wanted: a single industrial server, four kinds of node that all speak the same protocol, a JSON show file I can read with my eyes, and software that doesn’t need a license server. No Mac in the chain. No SaaS layer. No DRM that times out at midnight.

Right now it’s just me on the bench in Orlando. The email below reaches a human. That human is the one who wrote the firmware. I’d rather you knew that than read a stock-photo page about “our team of passionate engineers.”

jason@northstarshowsystems.com · hello@northstarshowsystems.com

What I hold to

• Offline-first. The show runs without the internet. Period. The router cable getting kicked out doesn’t cancel a show.
• No surprise bills. Buy the hardware. The software’s included. No per-cue licensing, no per-operator caps, no auto-renewals.
• Your show, your file. Show files are JSON. Open them in any editor. Version them in git. If we ever shut down, your show keeps running.
• Email goes to a human. Not a tier-one phone tree. Not a chatbot. The person who answers can read the log and push the firmware.
• Built on a bench you can drive to. Boards are pick-and-placed in Orlando. RMA averages four business days because it’s on the same bench.

What I actually do for you.

If you’re running a small attraction, I can sell you boxes and walk you through it. If you’re a bigger venue, I’ll come out, run the cable, program the show, and stay through opening.