…and where do we find this Halloween monster list?

Posted at 2:24 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by pRtkL xLr8r

http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/

Posted at 2:26 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by thethirdmoose

whoops, thanks thethirdmoose.

Posted at 2:54 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

DMX needs to stick to rapping, and stay away from my hobbies.

Posted at 3:03 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by The Hare

I liked the way this was presented and explained. Anybody have links to other videos like this that explain DMX a bit more thoroughly?

Posted at 3:17 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by darksim905

DMX is just like midi, it just has more channels and beter resolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512-A

DMX is kind of old protocol… the next thing is RDM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDM_(lighting)

But if you justh have one solenoid to controll, why bother whit DMX?

Posted at 3:35 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by dnny

Well, it of course is simple if you have $1000 worth of ready to go equipment/materials etc. :-P

Posted at 5:49 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by Concino

@concino,
Go to the monster list. There are people there doing similar things with oscillating fans. That’s real hacking there!

Posted at 8:21 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by Calebkraft

post any questions you have on DMX, i can probably answer them…

quick primer tho, DMX is a control signal typically used in stage lighting. it consists of a repeated burst of data, in packets of 512 bytes(referred to as channels). depending on the address of your device and how many channels it uses, the values are interpreted and correspond to some abritrary device function.

as seen in the video, the dimmer pack allows you to choose a start address (set to 1) and each pair of plugs is then addressed 1 thru 4. now any controller you use that outputs DMX will be able to tell that dimmer pack to adjust the voltage being sent to each circuit by changing the DMX channels 1 thru 4 (0 to FF or 0 to 255). an incandescent light bulb plugged into a circuit could then be dimmed on the fly. this is just one example of DMX controlling a device.

for actual technical signal information, i know arduino has a DMX library that explains a bit of that. I also used to know of a good site that had a lot of technical writeups on DMX, but i cannot find it now.

Posted at 10:10 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by Xeracy

shouldn’t there be a Halloween tag for all these great hacks?

Posted at 10:56 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by Blizzarddemon

noooo hallowing attack, 3 more months of hallowing stuff

Posted at 11:34 pm on Sep 28th, 2009 by therian

she would make a good teacher for us when we were in kindergarten.

Posted at 2:01 pm on Sep 29th, 2009 by Gilliam