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Brilliant! What’s your tool chain in terms of hardware and libraries and so on look like? I imagine your skill set is very rare in that community.
by nuclearnice1 4y ago
Brilliant! What’s your tool chain in terms of hardware and libraries and so on look like?
I imagine your skill set is very rare in that community.
- piva00 4y agoSo far I've been using a lot of Adafruit components. Their 9-DOF breakout sensor board is really cool to keep track of small movements and I pair it with a WiFi enabled Wemos D1 for wearables. For my current project I'm creating vests with the 9-DOF sensor + Wemos D1 that connect to a central server and this server is a central dispatch to communicate with other stage parts (similar to the architecture of the Philips Hue Bridge). I have an Adafruit HUZZAH32 to control some stage lights and other equipment (fog machines, etc.). My idea is to enhance the job of the light designers, instead of them having to choreograph with the artists every movement they can instead select areas of the set that should be reacting to the artists movements and the light FX are triggered by those movements at the points the light designer select as focus for the part. For programming I'm mainly using CircuitPython or MicroPython as I love Python for the ease of prototyping and iterating over, and there are libraries for all the components I've needed so far :) Edit: I've also started to look into DMX to integrate these tools into the normal workflow of stage lighting/FX.
- iamflimflam1 4y agoThe emergence of things like MicroPython and CircuitPython have been an amazing game changer for what people can do in the embedded world. It's amazingly fun and feels different enough from day to day work to be fun.
- michael_chip 4y agoWow sounds really interesting, do you have anything online (code, videos, writing etc..) I would love to learn a bit more about this.