Le 10 Février 2005 01:14, Alexandre Quessy a écrit :
I find that Marc's way to do it with dimmer boards must be the most efficient one.
That's only one example.
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 don't know much about the esthetic of art portfolios... Building a kit might not be very sexy, but it has more esthetic value to me than any black box.
I wish I could use a micro-controller yet, but I am still not a assembly programmer !
They are much easier to use than you think. No assembler required.
There is http://semitone.sourceforge.net/diamond/ that could be quite interesting in this spirit.
That's neat. But it's a very complex device. You already have a computer, all you need is an interface.
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)
Is it possible to hack a OSX kernel? Anyway, that would be a pain.
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.
A lighting console is also a complex computer, which is not trivial to program as a dumb MIDI to DMX interface . Again, you already have a computer. If you want to go with DMX, you need a DMX interface and a few DMX faders. But there's also dumb MIDI faders; if you can find some, that would be the easiest way.
-- Marc