The Stem » Lighting http://blog.thestem.ca Brett Forsyth's professional work showcase, photos, and ramblings. Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:26:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Processing Controlling a Color Kinetics LED String Over Ethernet http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/81 http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/81#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:28:56 +0000 Brettf http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/81 Below you will find code that will allow you to control a Color Kinetics iColor Flex SL LED string via UDP. Why should you care? Well this will allow control of the string directly from your computer via ethernet. If you can’t see the power in that then maybe your inner nerd isn’t shining through.
Here is a video showing it in action.

]]> http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/81/feed 5 Processing+Cueserver = Easy Lighting Control http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/65 http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/65#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:21:02 +0000 Brettf http://blog.thestem.ca/archives/65 One of the projects I have been researching lately involves the use of LED light strings. Specifically I am using the iColor Flex SL from Color Kinetics. To control the lights I am sending UDP packets from Processing to an Interactive Technologies cueserver. The best part of this whole setup is that it is easy. The cueserver has one small issue in that it limits the UDP message size to 255 characters. When I contacted supprt at Interactive Technologies they immediately replied and added the ability to send larger packets to the firmware to-do list. I was really impressed by their quick response and willingness to change the firmware. Below are some pictures of the setup and a short video.

full setup

cueserver

power supply

This should be a video demonstrating processing controlling DMX lights via a cueserver. Problem is you don’t have flash or javascript enabled. You should probably do something about that.

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