SparkLab is an interactive technology and science area at the Queensland Museum. The space features more than 40 interactive exhibits that are designed to engage children in interesting and fun live experiments which enable them to explore and better understand core STEM concepts.
The Queensland Museum reached out to Digilin to develop a solution for a new exhibit aimed to teach children about the fundamentals of colour. The exhibit is composed of a closed room formed by a series of semi-transparent panels with various objects displayed throughout the room. The panels are back-lit with high output colour-change lighting that fades slowly through a series of colours. The various objects that cover the inside of the panelled room are saturated by the colour-change lighting, making it impossible to determine their actual colour.
Digilin developed custom fibre optic “torches” that output a high CRI white light, which can be directed at the various objects in the room to reveal their true colours. The torches use end-lit fibre optic cables, with a unique heavy-duty handle at the end, running back to Titan lightsources. Due to the harsh treatment they are sure to get, it was critical that the torches were developed to be as sturdy as possible, while also not having any dangerous elements.
We love to get involved in creative projects such as this, and are glad to add another milestone in our long relationship with the Queensland Museum.
