FEZ Spider and DMX

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Hi there,

i want to control a DMX-Light with 5 Channels, with the FEZ Spider.

I’m fairly new with this. I have a working System with an Arduino,

but don’t know how to build and connect the DMX with the Spider. As far as i understood, i should be able to send realtime Signals with the Watchdog?

And where to get the Hardware for an Interface?

Hope somebody knows more than me :smiley:

Greets
Heiko

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Welcome to the community.

What is " DMX-Light with 5 Channels"?

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Something like this :

http://www.google.de/products/catalog?hl=de&q=par+scheinwerfer+dmx&gs_upl=2638l2780l0l2861l2l2l0l0l0l0l112l112l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=907&bih=564&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10575931856594546596&sa=X&ei=RvjpTtSzG9qPsAaUhPCpBw&ved=0CDsQ8wIwAw

DMX is a light-controlling protocoll. I heard Tom Bartindale build such a module

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This would be pretty cool to make. I do not know anything about this protocol so I couldn’t answer this question. Maybe provide us some specifications.

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There is a Project, for Arduino:
http://iad.projects.zhdk.ch/physicalcomputing/hardware/arduino/dmx-shield-fur-arduino/

its in German, but the schematics and code should be multilanguage :slight_smile:

specifications for the protocol could you find in wikipedia (“DMX”)

I don’t know where to start with the conversion from arduino shield to fez module

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Does the light or DMX protocol have some kind of datasheet that explains how it work (regardless of what you actually use for hardware to control it)? Looks like fun!

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@ ransomhall

Maybe this might help?

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512[/url]

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That should be a bit better:
http://www.dmx512-online.com/packt.html

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Sometimes I hate this community! I really do not have time for this but DMX seems so cool I ended up spending $400 on some gear and I plan on making it work with FEZ.

It looks like it is rs485 so should be very easy.

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@ Gus,

You don’t hate this community…your bank account, OTOH, and your free time…well that’s a different matter… :wink:

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@ Gus, if you help me out, which ports i could use to send the necessary data i would try to build a hardware and test it with coding the watchdog :slight_smile:

but… what do you spend 400$ for? :smiley:

or where can i find more information about the spider board?

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You know that was a joke right :slight_smile: I spend more time on this forum than I spend with my wife :o

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whoops, slow one here :wink:

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I figured it was because you just busted your laptop. So let us know when you get a room ready to rave in with this thing :dance:

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I spent $400 on few DMX lights, cables and controller.

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It is easy, just send a sequence of 512bytes of level/channel data to update all lights. The only tricky part is to send the longer sync signal with a standard uart before each sequence.

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on which port… ? And how in a event-driven environment? :o

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You are crazy
or …
You use this forum to find reasons to buy cool stuff ;D

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visit me in berlin/germany… you can use a whole equipped theatre from me

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600km for me :stuck_out_tongue:
Not really a problem.

[italic]Schöne grüße aus dem viel zu warmen Österreich. [/italic]