Hi, This all sounds good. Really interesting !
I find that Marc's way to do it with dimmer boards must be the most efficient one. But it would take quite a few days to implement. (I don't want to cross the street and borrow your dusty stuff : it's for a portfolio...) I wish I could use a micro-controller yet, but I am still not a assembly programmer !
There is http://semitone.sourceforge.net/diamond/ that could be quite interesting in this spirit. A perl script in the semitone software utilities at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80137 could allow Pd to send messages from the shell. Perhaps we could even pipe the Pd sound output to [g]mplayer and then to their perl script dimplayer. Would you think it could work ?
As I am currently "only" running on OS X, the USB to DMX solution would be ok, even though I would need to hack my kernel. Not too bad. The dmxusb external looks all right. I would just need this Open DMX USB device. (100$USD)
I think that the quickest way to realize this would be to use a midi out. Then, I just need a midi-compatible lighting console. It would also be quick, as in CPU-time. This (a compatible console) must be possible to find somewhere around. To get things simple, I even thought about displaying colors with a simple projector, but then, there wouldn't be much fun left...
aalex
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Le 05-02-08, à 15:05, cutterlonia a écrit :
vincent rioux wrote:
you might also want to check
http://www.enttec.com/dmxusb.php http://www.akustische-kunst.org/puredata/index.html http://members.optusnet.com.au/~rowanmac/opendmx.html
yes, and also: peperoni-light.de they got a usb2dmx interface called rodin (512 out-chn) (there might be also a DIY project on dmx4linux...) I took part in a art-exibition-project, where we controled 72 channels, or else 24 RGB-Devices (vossloh-schwabe, led-dimmer ca. 1A/chn) with this interface... they got linux-drivers for it and I have some flex-code ready (which I could give you...) for interacting with pd (there is an dmxdevice and a dmxRGB object for controling the interface.)
peace martin
vincent
Alexandre Quessy wrote:
Hi list !
I am looking for a way to control 3 lights (red, green and blue) with Pd. I first thought of using variable resistances with the spots, but then I thought a digital lighting console could do the job better and easier.
Did someone have a succesful experience with this ? Is it the best way to do it ? If not, what else should I use. And if so, do I need an external or an other software to control the console ?
Thanks for your mutual support,
Alexandre Quessy Montréal, Québec, Canada
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