Make: Volume 91

PROJECTS: Squishy Tech

SET UP AN LED LIGHTING

SYSTEM WITH DMX CONTROL

1. UNDERSTANDING THE CODE

After testing a range of DMX libraries, I have been

using the Conceptinetics DMX library for Arduino

(sourceforge.net/projects/dmxlibraryforar). It

provides a series of really clear functions for

using fixtures. You’ll start by defining a series

of parameters for your sketch. I’ve created an

example:

#dene channelSpacing 10 // This is

the channels

Here we are setting the number of channels each

fixture has. I chose to set channelSpacing at 10

because I was using a variety of different fixtures,

some of which had four channels and some of

which had ...