[Lab] Color Kinetics Light Panel : DMX anyone?

[Andrew O'Malley]

Looking good!

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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