[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

[Andrew O'Malley]

Nice, awesome find, Tom!

Agreed that the official product site/documentation is hard to navigate.

Thanks for the solid starting point, good luck getting settled w/ the new house.

ao.


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh ok!  Sorry, I went to the site for the Color Kinetics and got lost when
> it asked for a model number.
> This page has both examples using DMX and at the bottom someone says they've
> got code for using processing with the DMX over ethernet.
> http://www.directionless.org/color-kinetics/Software See the bottom section
> under "Ike Feitler"
> This thing sounds fun!  I wish I had the time tonight.  Just bought a house
> so... I don't :)
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Andrew O'Malley <aomalley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>> >> > Message-ID: <41F28FC2-FF35-4F64-B093-609487771443 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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