#badass Woman Project Entry - Amy Worrall

Could this be it ?

https://github.com/amyworrall/eos-playground/tree/master/encoders-follow-eos

Hi there, are you still online? I have nearly the same project going on right now. Would it be possible to send me the code for the teensy? 

Greets, Julian

This is so helpful. Thankyou so much. Any chance you could provide the arduino code ? 

Hi Amy,

Thanks for the great tutorial!!  I liked following along as you broke down the steps needed to hack together a working clone.

If only I had some spare time to investigate further, but my time is spent working in those networks that were briefly mentioned, and I do find the odd occasion to engage the assistance of Wireshark.

Happy Hacking!!    :-)

Excellent job of reverse engineering and recycling of hardware.

I love WireShark but have never used the USB capture option even though I have it installed.  I may have been inspired to try it .

Great job on the demo video!

Wireshark makes a powerful device debugging tool, very interesting & a cool little puzzle to solve, nice one!

I added you to a YouTube playlist here to keep track of channels/videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDZhLtOt5g&list=PLUqSARZt5KdEc90IqY_D4yOoR3qGEeSMC&index=2&t=0s

Really enjoyed the video. Such attention to detail.

Denis

Hm, I've been wanting to do something similar to this for PS4 controllers, since they're irritating to mimic/create custom controllers of. Nice.

The difference is that I run ETC Nomad on my laptop. Apart from the fact I only have a license for up to 1024 channels (which is more than I need anyway), it's the same software that runs on all of ETC's consoles, even the high end ones.

I've spent years learning ETC's software, and I've gotten quite quick at programming a show with it. When we're in the theatre, the amount of time I can spend on lighting is limited, and I have to do a lot of things (setting up, focussing, going through cues with the director) as well as programming the individual looks. The show gets programmed in advance, into a show file with cue numbers, it handles the transition times between states, it can do various effects, and it lets you make changes on the fly if a critical situation arises during the show then go back to the pre-programmed state.

While I have in the past ran shows where I was manually controlling everything (one fader per light, a script with a bunch of pencilled notes, and wishing I had twice as many hands as I do), I'm rather glad those days are behind us. It works well enough if you have a dozen lanterns. It works less well when you have a rig of 200, and some of them are motorised and have 25 parameters to control, and the director wants the flickering of a fire, a precisely timed lightning strike out of the window, plus some moody stuff with the ambient lighting when the protagonist slowly discovers the antagonist's true intentions…

That's a long winded way of saying, I'd love the challenge of writing my own lighting software to output DMX, but it'd take me years before I trusted it to run a show as quickly and reliably as ETC Nomad.

Cool project, you clearly put a lot of thought into this one (also, Firefly board game (Go Browncoats)), and great presentation!

How does emulating the ETC equipment compare with creating a cutom solution that impliments the DMX protocol directly?