DMXOS... why not?

Design Concepts
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hi, i’m playing with a midibox64 (I hope to have it working for the 31 dec.) and i had an idea:

i was tinking for a long time to a dmx consolle, but now i’m thinking to modificate mios to make it compatible with dmx standard

is maybe possible to assign some pots to dmx and other to midi, having a single consolle for playing music and lights…

of course another usart is needed, and it must be very fast, dmx travels at 250kbit/s. what about another uart (maybe another microcontroller) via I2C?

what do you think about this?

Thorsten, do you think it’s possible?

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Sounds like a great idea! I’m also very interested in controlling DMX thru MIDI and integrating lightshow with sequencer.

3

expecially for syncing beat to light, it it isn’t very performant if done via analog filters or via microprocessor but an fft (fast fourier transform) inplemented on a pc that can comunicate via midi to the consolle, and the consolle activate the lights in beat synced mode maybe a fantastic thing.

I think the 50% of the “enjoyng” of the dancefloor is due to the music synced light show.