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Hey gang..
Finished a fun little project a bit ago and figured I'd share.. a local community theatre was doing a production of Jekyl and Hyde the musical, and the director came to me looking for ideas on how to get a few small lighting effects on the lab table. He wanted it to be wireless, operated from the control booth, and of course had almost no budget
I wasn't the LD on the show, as I currently had something on stage at my own venue, but I figured it'd be fun to work on the lab table aspect.. Attaching some photos of what I came up with -- don't laugh too hard at how messy it all is, it only had to work for 8 performances, and was installed on a pretty tight timetable...
The finished effect uses:
I know, I know -- using WiFi for sACN... but, it worked flawlessly in this RF environment over the 8 performances, and other than the LED rings and the MR16 lamps, everything came from my "for fun" inventory so the cost was pretty low -- about $65 total for the effect.
Some pics attached (hopefully successfully).. All in all, I was impressed at how it worked, and I'd definitely use the RaspberryPi platform for other one-off effects on the cheap..
Cheers,
Joe
Finished a fun little project a bit ago and figured I'd share.. a local community theatre was doing a production of Jekyl and Hyde the musical, and the director came to me looking for ideas on how to get a few small lighting effects on the lab table. He wanted it to be wireless, operated from the control booth, and of course had almost no budget
I wasn't the LD on the show, as I currently had something on stage at my own venue, but I figured it'd be fun to work on the lab table aspect.. Attaching some photos of what I came up with -- don't laugh too hard at how messy it all is, it only had to work for 8 performances, and was installed on a pretty tight timetable...
The finished effect uses:
- 4 RGB LED rings from Adafruit
- 2 x 12v MR16 LED lamps
- 12v motorcycle battery for power
- 1 x WiFi Router/Access Point
- 1 x Raspberry Pi with 8-relay add on board
- a small amount of custom Python code interfacing with the Open Lighting Architecture daemon/library in order to listen for levels for each of the LED rings and for the two relays that were used for the MR16s
I know, I know -- using WiFi for sACN... but, it worked flawlessly in this RF environment over the 8 performances, and other than the LED rings and the MR16 lamps, everything came from my "for fun" inventory so the cost was pretty low -- about $65 total for the effect.
Some pics attached (hopefully successfully).. All in all, I was impressed at how it worked, and I'd definitely use the RaspberryPi platform for other one-off effects on the cheap..
Cheers,
Joe