How about using 4 freestyle boards and drive the leds instead of the ssr. Use the new splitter and your LED status display would be one leg and you could use the other three for your display.
I'm not sure there would be enough interest in a coop. I do have 6 boards left over from my protos; I'll sell those for $10 each with the shift registers installed (I have extras of them :-)
BTW, a little loop unravelling and optimization got it to the full 8 bits of intensity per pixel with no flicker :-) The latest code is on http://www.ardai.net/DMXStatus/ (http://www.ardai.net/DMXStatus/)
/mike
I'll sell those for $10 each with the shift registers installed (I have extras of them :-)Me too.
I think software would be an ideal way to display this. Just pop open a window and have it display the information ... then I would think you should an entire pixelnet universe. I think you can already do with with LSP perhaps, by creating a big 4096 pixelnet controller and then drawing it out as a big matrix in the visualizer. I think a standalone utility would be better.The problem with having a software display is you are not seeing the true data stream being sent out to the hardware. Unless of course you had another dongle that received the data stream and used that information to drive the display window.
Still... :) . . . The visualizer in LSP is so rough due to size limitations that it has very limited value in visualizing. I can understand the reason for the limitation -- you don't want your computer to get bogged down visualizing a show when its resources need to be prioritized at getting packets out to the dongles. . .
admit it, some of you want it, b/c it's a gadget that blinks and flashes
admit it, some of you want it, b/c it's a gadget that blinks and flashes >:D
Of course the reason I want this is it is blinky flashy! Do we really need another reason:)
Mike.
Unfortunately, that display has all of the cells one color. The top row has the odd color arrangement as seen in the picture. It also has a rather odd matrix wiring.Mike,
There are standard single-color 8x8 matrix blocks out there. There are also RGB ones, but the issue there is how to map the DMX channels to pixels.
The original panel was not intended as a visualizer for sequences. It was for testing and monitoring a hardware DMX data stream.
/mike