FEATURES Lux Lavalier
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DAVID J. GROOM loves writing code you can touch. If he’s not hacking on wearables,
he’s building a companion bot, growing his extensive collection of dev boards, or
hacking on 90s DOS-based palmtops. Find him on Twitter at @IShJR
Ben Hencke, Debra Ansell, Jason Coon
An LED “supergroup” collaborates
on the Lux Lavalier
Written by David J. Groom
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PERFECT CIRCLE
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ad Season, Cream, Prophets of Rage,
the Traveling Wilburys — what do they
have in common? Perhaps it’s that you’ve never
heard of them, but they are also all supergroups
— successful artists teaming up to create
something new and exciting. In the world of
LEDs, instead of Layne Staley, Tom Morello, and
Tom Petty, more familiar names might be Debra
Ansell, Jason Coon, and Ben Hencke. So you can
imagine our excitement when we learned they
were cooking up something together. Let’s meet
these stars and learn how their solo projects led
to an epic magnum opus — the tiny, mesmerizing
LED pendant necklace known as Lux Lavalier.
BUSINESS IS BLAZING
Ben Hencke (Figure
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) is a multifaceted
entrepreneur. He writes software, creates
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PERFECT CIRCLE
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