Arduino DMX controller

posted Oct 2nd 2009 9:00am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: arduino hacks

Arduino_DMX

This Arduino powered DMX controller came along at just the right time. We had shown you a project earlier that involved the DMX system and several commenters remarked on the price to get into DMX hardware. If you happen to have an Arduino around, you can build a DMX controller. He found a schematic for a DMX driver, and built some custom code to control it all. You can download his code on the project site.

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tagged: arduino, dmx, halloween, strobe

11 Responses to Arduino DMX controller

jai says:

October 2, 2009 at 10:01 am

But where are all the DIY DMX receivers?

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SSP says:

October 2, 2009 at 10:23 am

And to think that I didn’t know what I was doing this weekend.

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Dielectric says:

October 2, 2009 at 1:01 pm

@jai:

Here’s one:
http://www.cypress.com/?rID=2680
and some background info:
http://www.cypress.com/?rID=35378

Hey, it doesn’t use an Arduino, imagine that!

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twistedsymphony says:

October 2, 2009 at 1:21 pm

neat hack…

though when you drop a term like “DMX” the least you can do is link it to an appropriate wikipedia article so people know what you’re talking about.

DMX

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Jesbus says:

October 2, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Or people can learn to use fucking google.

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Nick says:

October 3, 2009 at 12:11 am

For dmx recievers, http://www.hoelscher-hi.de/hendrik/english/dimmer.htm has a selection, and under resources has the libraries for reception and transmission for AVR micros. Found them when doing a similar thing.

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AS says:

October 3, 2009 at 4:48 am

Jesbus, I (and by extension, everyone) will only google things they find interesting. To do a writeup with no link explaining what the hell it’s on about is bad form – it will get less reads.

For proof, see the number of comments.

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Jon Williams says:

October 3, 2009 at 6:21 am

DMX is fun and pretty easy to implement. For those who are interested in the Propeller microcontroller my November column (“The Spin Zone”) in Nuts & Volts magazine details building a DMX RX/TX board for the Propeller Platform (also my design, available from Gadget Gangster).

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incognito53 says:

October 3, 2009 at 6:33 am

i just used “fucking google” and searching DMX came back exactly what I thought was going to come back. a rapper. granted, now that i know what it is from that wikipedia article i can better understand it, but not everyone knows what to search for in “fucking google”

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Jon Williams says:

October 3, 2009 at 6:58 am

Technically, it’s called DMX512-A — here’s a couple useful links:

http://www.erwinrol.com/index.php?stagecraft/dmx.php

http://www.dmx512-online.com/packt.html

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error404 says:

October 4, 2009 at 11:20 pm

The actual article is here: http://www.tasankokaiku.com/jarse/?p=268

Please hAd, don’t get into the habit of crosslinking into the blogosphere and just link the real post.

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