Hi guys<div><br></div><div>I had some time this morning and started an emulator for the panel. It should foster better client development.</div><div><br></div><div>It's not done. I may have my R/G/B values out of order and definitely have the lines out of order.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Change the make-it-so.py to send data to 127.0.0.1 and run the emulator. Uses pygame for rendering.</div><div><br></div><div>Posting slightly incomplete because I don't know when I'll next have time to work on this.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/gravitronic/color-kinetics-control-example">https://github.com/gravitronic/color-kinetics-control-example</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Andrew O'Malley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aomalley@gmail.com">aomalley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Nice work, guys! I heard about this from Ryan! I'll be checking it<br>
out over the wknd.<br>
<br>
Thanks so much,<br>
<font color="#888888">Andrew<br>
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Andrew Plumb <<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> The Python code Dwayne came up with last night (with a little help from me) is up at <a href="https://github.com/dlitz/color-kinetics-control-example" target="_blank">https://github.com/dlitz/color-kinetics-control-example</a><br>
><br>
> Andrew.<br>
><br>
> On 2011-07-06, at 1:50 PM, Andrew O'Malley wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Nice, awesome find, Tom!<br>
>><br>
>> Agreed that the official product site/documentation is hard to navigate.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for the solid starting point, good luck getting settled w/ the new house.<br>
>><br>
>> ao.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Oh ok! Sorry, I went to the site for the Color Kinetics and got lost when<br>
>>> it asked for a model number.<br>
>>> This page has both examples using DMX and at the bottom someone says they've<br>
>>> got code for using processing with the DMX over ethernet.<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.directionless.org/color-kinetics/Software" target="_blank">http://www.directionless.org/color-kinetics/Software</a> See the bottom section<br>
>>> under "Ike Feitler"<br>
>>> This thing sounds fun! I wish I had the time tonight. Just bought a house<br>
>>> so... I don't :)<br>
>>> Cheers,<br>
>>> Tom<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Andrew O'Malley <<a href="mailto:aomalley@gmail.com">aomalley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The Color Kinetics power/data supply actually only has an Ethernet in,<br>
>>>> not the regular DMX port; if it did, that'd be a great place to start.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> I might be asking an obvious question here but do you have an ethernet<br>
>>>>> -><br>
>>>>> DMX converter? You would need one for that to work.<br>
>>>>> Lowest cost solution I have found with a quick google would be arduino<br>
>>>>> based: <a href="http://hackaday.com/2009/10/02/arduino-dmx-controller/" target="_blank">http://hackaday.com/2009/10/02/arduino-dmx-controller/</a><br>
>>>>> Good luck! That thing looks pretty cool. I bought a bunch of LEDs at<br>
>>>>> one<br>
>>>>> point from sparkfun and wrote some software to do MIDI controlled<br>
>>>>> addressing... too bad my band broke up before finishing it :)<br>
>>>>> Tom<br>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Andrew O'Malley <<a href="mailto:aomalley@gmail.com">aomalley@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> If anyone has any experience sending DMX over ethernet, I'd love to<br>
>>>>>> get in touch. I'd love to be able to connect to the power/data supply<br>
>>>>>> directly from a laptop over an ethernet cable, and use Processing to<br>
>>>>>> send DMX data to the fixture. Been doing some research this morning<br>
>>>>>> but not coming up with too much yet.<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> Message: 3<br>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:22:14 -0400<br>
>>>>>>> From: Ryan Stec <<a href="mailto:ryanstec@artengine.ca">ryanstec@artengine.ca</a>><br>
>>>>>>> Subject: [Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?<br>
>>>>>>> To: lab <<a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a>><br>
>>>>>>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:41F28FC2-FF35-4F64-B093-609487771443@artengine.ca">41F28FC2-FF35-4F64-B093-609487771443@artengine.ca</a>><br>
>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> Gonna bring in my Color Kinetics Color Tile FX tonight. It's a big<br>
>>>>>>> bright 16x16 tile matrix. Andrew O'Malley and I will be eventually<br>
>>>>>>> writing<br>
>>>>>>> some software to translate video into DMX for the panel, but it be<br>
>>>>>>> great to<br>
>>>>>>> get some feedback from people tonight, especially if anyone has<br>
>>>>>>> experience<br>
>>>>>>> with DMX.<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> This is the panel:<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.colorkinetics.com/ls/rgb/tile/" target="_blank">http://www.colorkinetics.com/ls/rgb/tile/</a><br>
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