JohnHuntington
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http://controlgeek.net/blog/2020/5/...tertainment-system-show-control-class-project
From the blog:
One of my favorite classes I teach at City Tech’s Entertainment Technology department is Show Control. Show Control, as I define in my book, Show Networks and Control Systems, is connecting two or more entertainment control systems (lighting, sound, video, machinery, etc) together. I’ve worked with this integration technology since the 80’s and have taught this class for many years at City Tech almost entirely hands on. Students start out with QLab, and then move onto programming our Gravesend Inn™ animatronic character via its control system based in Weigl/Conductor. The second half of the semester is based in network-centric Medialon Manager. Fortunately, when the pandemic hit, we had completed the first two hands on subjects, and since Medialon has a free demo mode, students are able to work at home on a PC. However, a big part of the class is controlling real systems such as lighting consoles, video servers and other similar devices, and this wasn’t possible while the school was closed down for COVID-19. But I figured out that with some gear I had, and grabbing a couple small items from school on my way out, I could set up a system in my tiny Brooklyn spare room and let the students remote access it via Team Viewer. Medialon generously sent me a software license key and as I had an hour here or there over the last few weeks I built up the system around an extra Lenovo laptop and a PetSafe Train ‘n Praise Dog Treat Dispenser.
From the blog:
One of my favorite classes I teach at City Tech’s Entertainment Technology department is Show Control. Show Control, as I define in my book, Show Networks and Control Systems, is connecting two or more entertainment control systems (lighting, sound, video, machinery, etc) together. I’ve worked with this integration technology since the 80’s and have taught this class for many years at City Tech almost entirely hands on. Students start out with QLab, and then move onto programming our Gravesend Inn™ animatronic character via its control system based in Weigl/Conductor. The second half of the semester is based in network-centric Medialon Manager. Fortunately, when the pandemic hit, we had completed the first two hands on subjects, and since Medialon has a free demo mode, students are able to work at home on a PC. However, a big part of the class is controlling real systems such as lighting consoles, video servers and other similar devices, and this wasn’t possible while the school was closed down for COVID-19. But I figured out that with some gear I had, and grabbing a couple small items from school on my way out, I could set up a system in my tiny Brooklyn spare room and let the students remote access it via Team Viewer. Medialon generously sent me a software license key and as I had an hour here or there over the last few weeks I built up the system around an extra Lenovo laptop and a PetSafe Train ‘n Praise Dog Treat Dispenser.