Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft
Subject: Re: Building DMX stuff from scratch
References:  
"E. Lee Dickinson"  writes:

> "Torrance Bell"  wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
> > Been toying with the idea of putting together a box that takes a dmx 
> > signal and controls some relays.  so far, I have found one chip that meets 
> > my needs perfectly.  The Artistic Licence AL4008.
> >
> > This is something I would like to use in the future for doing Xmas lights 
> > like the infamous trans siberian orchestra video recently floated around 
> > the net.
> >
> >
> > Who else makes stuff like this that I can buy?
> 
> I've been buggering around the group about stuff like this for a while now.
> 
> I think we need to group together to develop an open source multi-purpose 
> DMX solution. By "band together" I mean those of us with basic soldering 
> skills would mooch off the real engineers like Clive Mitchell and Frank 
> Wood. :) 


There are some interrestign DMX-512 circuit links listed at 
http://www.epanorama.net/links/lights.html#dmx512

I have played with some of them... 
Maybe some day I add some information on my experiences on 
those to www.epanorama.net web site..

I have followed some DMX-512 discussion at 
http://members3.boardhost.com/dmx512/ 
and posted some messages to there.

-- 
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at 
http://www.epanorama.net/