Hi Guys! This is a project that I have been making for a local club in my hometown Maastricht (the Netherlands). It was a good learning process for me, especially to think about ways to communicate DMX to the system, and to make the different panels run (almost) in sync. It’s still quite a mess, as it blinks white sometimes (I think because it switches to strobe mode for a second, which is the first program) and it doesn’t communicate the full range of fadingmodes really wel. The inner panel and the outer panels both have 25 different fadingmodes.
So yeah, it looks alright but it still needs some debugging and figuring out the glitches. The club is really happy with it though Would like to hear your opinions! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNNOas_gQ-0
@Scottie_D369 , It’s alive and well in the Netherlands
@marmil I used the conceptinetics board, but I’m still not sure if it was the right choice. It uses the serial port, which was apparently also needed for communicating with the LEDs (an interrupt or something?). So I planned to connect it to my Mega, but the LEDs couldn’t run anymore. Eventually I took an Uno as DMX slave, and made an I2C bus to my mega and nano’s (inside each of the panels). Installed eventually it receives its DMX signals pretty well, it receives better than it sends with I2C, which is more difficult to stabilize.
Would like to hear your opinions!