[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

[Andrew Plumb]

The Python code Dwayne came up with last night (with a little help from me) is up at https://github.com/dlitz/color-kinetics-control-example

Andrew.

On 2011-07-06, at 1:50 PM, Andrew O'Malley wrote:

> 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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