I got an email a little while ago from Mitja Prelovšek who runs the lighting website Enlighter. (Sorry I haven't posted this yet Mitja, I'm in just released software land!) Enlighter did a project recently with interactive product called Light Act, which is pretty cool — imagine tracking a person as they walk past a [...]
Read More DALI, digital addressable lighting interface, DMX, Enlighter, interactive lighting, Light Act, Lighting Control, Mitja Prelovšek, Pulse Width Modulation, PWMI saw this amazing video on Hack N' Mod about turning an XBox 360 Kinect into a DMX lighting control device. Of course I said "SAY WHAAAT?" to myself ever so gently. Can you imagine this with a full lighting rig? Right now, it's just being done with two green LEDs. Check out the video! Kinect [...]
Read More DJ, DMX, Hack-N-Mod, Kinect, Lighting Control, XBox 360 KinectLuminair has been rocking the iPhone for a while now – the iPhone/iPod Touch DMX device control application uses Art-Net to communicate with devices employing Wi-Fi over your network. It's sexy. Synthe-FX just released Luminair 1.5, an update with great features for the interface, real time data display, and moving light control just to name [...]
Read More Art-Net, DMX, DMX control, iphone, Luminair, Luminair 1.5, softwareI saw these at LDI (and I apparently did not win one via the card drawing that was held, sigh), and there is a press release pimping the new v3.0 software, and the fact that they're shipping. The DMX Processor 8000 is the new big bad wolf of DMX processing. Get an expander, and you [...]
Read More ArtNet, control, DMX, DMX Processor 8000Behold: The City Theatrical DMX Iris and DMX Projector Douser. City Theatrical in all of their greatness has released a DMX controlled iris for all of your irising needs. It runs off of a 24VDC power supply, like your typical Forerunner II or Chroma Q PSU for scrollers, with a 4-pin cable, just like scroller [...]
Read More City Theatrical, DMX, DMX iris, DMX projector douserThat's right – it's a DMX-controlled coffee pot – 12 cup coffee pot, to be exact! For those of you not familiar with Doug Fleenor's work, Doug Fleenor is – or should be known – as the Lord of DMX Device Design. From converters to splitters, recorders for playback to overdrive mods for the Hog [...]
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