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Hey guys,

Who would be the best contact or maybe a general inquiry to Quelab members for an LED prop? I'm looking for means to fabricate a bunch of props for the Maize Maze using LEDs. Here's the main ones:

1) LED glowing tube with unknown liquid
I am thinking of a 3-5" clear tube that is caped and filled with some form of jelly or liquid. Within that possibly with an inner set tube would be filled with enough colored LEDs to light the tube and hopefully 1-2 day of battery power. Not required but would be interesting to pulse. We're very much looking for toxic chemical-type vibe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle style. Would need dozens of these.

2) LED glowing puddle with unknown liquid
Similar as above imagining that what was in that container got spilled into a glowing puddle on the ground. We thought about plexiglass with LED lights below and shallow pool of jelly to simulate it's deeper.

3) Motion activation audio devices

I can't actually figure out an inexpensive way to create this but part of the plot line of the interactive experience would be if the glow tubes could activate at a particular location. I'm not sure of a way to activate based on a proximity of a particular location. I think we could work around that need.

All this would be for the halloween weekend. We're working on an interactive theatrical experience inside the corn maze. The short of it is mutant frogs from chemical spill. It will have a slight educational component but mostly theatrical. The other props will be very Jurassic Park and visitors will be trying to figure out what is happening, unknowingly the actors will guide visitors to transport these mysterious containers which they later find out is causing the problems. We hope to also develop human-size frog costumes for the halloween scare factor once they do realize they will essentially be chased out of the maze.

I'm currently looking to see if this can be paid through by sponsors or possibly looking at a partnership with a high school film school who could use same props with their projects. Another idea could possibly be a partnership with Quelab so the event could also become a fundraising and promotional opportunity for the lab. The halloween weekend sees about 75% of the overall attendance. Halloween weekend falls on a Wed. this year so I was looking for something more unique to launch on the weekend before but also spread the word to get a draw on Halloween. I'd have to find out more specifics of course but could try and see if there's a way to share in the revenue. We've previously done this with schools where they get a % of visitors that come out.

Yeah, lots of this sound pretty easy: making the liquid for tubes/glowing puddles is as easy as finding a properly colored highlighter. Some colors glow really brightly under blacklights, dunno if power would be an issue there though. Motion detecting is easy, too.

We can probably do this relatively cheaply, but the more we get in terms of sponsorship, the more awesome we can make it. Agreed with Adric that we've got to keep the extra margin in mind for the Space Fed.