The Tech Behind: How many light bulbs does it take to celebrate the holidays at Franklin Square?
The Electrical Spectacle Light Show features 200,000 LEDs and a month and a half of prep to get the musical show going.
The Tech Behind is a Technical.ly reporting series in which we explore the technology that powers notable local institutions.
Smaller in scale but high in Christmas cheer, a small borough just outside of Pittsburgh hosts its own Light Up Bellevue! holiday event. Here’s what it takes to make the annual event happen.
The Electrical Spectacle Light Show features 200,000 LEDs and a month and a half of prep to get the musical show going.
What does the internet *sound* like? To wrap Technical.ly's Digital Infrastructure Month, take a look behind the scenes at the hardware powering the largest ISP in Philadelphia.
WMATA added mobile payment capabilities for Android-using Metro riders this month. To learn more about how it works, we talked to Cubic senior product director Paul Monk.
"We were all attending class today from different parts of the city, or the world, in our own VR headsets. The classroom, a modern lookalike for any of the rooms in Anderson or Gladfelter Halls, was a simulation."
The immersive art venue uses virtual reality, motion sensors, light and sound to engage visitors.
The tech behind the holiday tradition that brings thousands to the store every week, from Black Friday through New Year's Eve.
Here's how the creepy, gory attraction is powered, courtesy of a tour with Eastern State Penitentiary's associate director of design and facilities engineering.
Including its automated book-retrieving BookBot.