[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

Andrew O'Malley aomalley at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 12:57:54 EDT 2011


The Color Kinetics power/data supply actually only has an Ethernet in,
not the regular DMX port; if it did, that'd be a great place to start.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be asking an obvious question here but do you have an ethernet ->
> DMX converter?  You would need one for that to work.
> Lowest cost solution I have found with a quick google would be arduino
> based: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/02/arduino-dmx-controller/
> Good luck!  That thing looks pretty cool.  I bought a bunch of LEDs at one
> point from sparkfun and wrote some software to do MIDI controlled
> addressing... too bad my band broke up before finishing it :)
> Tom
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Andrew O'Malley <aomalley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If anyone has any experience sending DMX over ethernet, I'd love to
>> get in touch.  I'd love to be able to connect to the power/data supply
>> directly from a laptop over an ethernet cable, and use Processing to
>> send DMX data to the fixture.  Been doing some research this morning
>> but not coming up with too much yet.
>>
>> > Message: 3
>> > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:22:14 -0400
>> > From: Ryan Stec <ryanstec at artengine.ca>
>> > Subject: [Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?
>> > To: lab <lab at artengine.ca>
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>> > Gonna bring in my Color Kinetics Color Tile FX tonight. It's a big
>> > bright 16x16 tile matrix. Andrew O'Malley and I will be eventually writing
>> > some software to translate video into DMX for the panel, but it be great to
>> > get some feedback from people tonight, especially if anyone has experience
>> > with DMX.
>> >
>> > This is the panel:
>> >
>> > http://www.colorkinetics.com/ls/rgb/tile/
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