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There is a video showing the RF box with DMX input (and USB), and they talk about how they can control it from a standard lighting board. https://i.imgur.com/D
by gregmac 2y ago
There is a video showing the RF box with DMX input (and USB), and they talk about how they can control it from a standard lighting board.
https://i.imgur.com/Di09aD2.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/Di09aD2.jpeg
It sounds like each band can be a part of (at least) 2 "groups", with the example showing groups 1-18 assigned to each stadium section, and 1-9 going all the way around from the first row to the highest/back row.
It's not hard to imagine that they've mapped each of those groups to a DMX channel, with the value indicating the color, and/or flash pattern, etc. Even if you're limited to 512 distinct groups (a single DMX universe), that's a lot of granularity. With that, any lighting designer/operator can use their console of choice to do scene and sequence programming -- no special training needed.
- jasonjayr 2y agoYea, that sounds sane. The RF transmitter gets the DMX commands to groups, which then get translated to batches of RF bands, and then they just act on that. I wonder if the RF system has enough bandwidth to show a movie or an animation at a decent frame rate, because that would be a neat effect.
- amluto 2y agoIR has arbitrarily good spatial bandwidth — instead of a conventional moving light setup, it could be done like a projector — stick a DLP chip or an LED array at the focal plane. Then you could project a movie by literally projecting the movie as IR commands :)