[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

Thu Jul 7 12:04:44 EDT 2011

Hi guys

I had some time this morning and started an emulator for the panel.  It
should foster better client development.

It's not done.  I may have my R/G/B values out of order and definitely have
the lines out of order.

Change the make-it-so.py to send data to 127.0.0.1 and run the emulator.
 Uses pygame for rendering.

Posting slightly incomplete because I don't know when I'll next have time to
work on this.

https://github.com/gravitronic/color-kinetics-control-example

Cheers!
Tom

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Andrew O'Malley <aomalley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> >>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 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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