www.taittowers.com: Meet Yoni Carver! He’s a Controls Integrator at TAIT HQ participating in the co-op program between TAIT and Drexel University. Yoni will be working full-time upon graduation in Spring 2020. His episode of TAIT Take Over features a behind the scenes look at the electrical engineering and integration of the Wells Fargo Center’s Kinetic Scoreboard.
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The Drexel co-op program is an awesome opportunity. Yoni (The kid in the video) is using his six months to work to the fullest extent possible and Tait did a good job of self-promoting through this video. I’d be curious to know how much control Yoni has over the project because they made it seem like he had some sort of leadership position. It’s awesome that he’s getting to use all of the skills he’s studying together to work on such a large project and I’d be interested in working on something like that someday. He also mentioned “pyro and cryo” which I assume is the like dry ice or some other type of cold special effect. I’ve never heard about that type of affect before and I’d be interested in learning more. This type of large project is the type of thing that I’d like to work on someday with lots of moving pieces and integration between systems. At this point, I like working on projects like that in a small scale.
What an impressive piece of engineering. A ninety thousand pound scoreboard on its own would be impressive, but this kinetic scoreboard takes it many steps farther. This is a ninety thousand pound, kinetic scoreboard with integrated lighting, video, audio, pyro, and cryo?? The engineering and mechanics that must have gone into designing and building this behemoth is incomprehensible to me. I would be very interesting in taking a tour around this massive screen just so I could see the inner workings of it and how everything functions as a whole. Also, another impressive aspect of this scoreboard is how fast it moves— up to four feet per second. That is incredible for ninety thousand pounds of what must be a mass of aluminum, steel, and electronic components. The whole concept of this scoreboard is breathtaking and I would love to see it in person some day, and honestly, this wouldn’t me much of a challenge, just a quick hop across the state to Philadelphia.
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