[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

[Andrew O'Malley]

Nice work, guys!  I heard about this from Ryan!  I'll be checking it
out over the wknd.

Thanks so much,
Andrew


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
> 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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