[SML] Theatre and Pi

[Ford Sellers]

We found that when dealing with the maximum throughput of 255 universes of Broadcast Artnet, and the translations into DMX in our NET-X<http://www.chauvetprofessional.com/products/net-x/> and Epix<http://www.chauvetprofessional.com/products/epix-drive-900/> products, we had to use a FPGA to effectively handle the data without bogging down.

For an architectural system (where a half second lag won’t cause a major headache), or a one or two universe device, you can probably get away with Pi.
It would probably work great for most small to medium theatres.

But for sorting and streaming a lot of data to pixel arrays, we’ve found that we need something more robust.

-Ford

From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net] On Behalf Of Michael Sauder via Stagecraft
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:19 AM
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Cc: Michael Sauder
Subject: Re: [SML] Theatre and Pi

This is somewhat related to my dormant "I'll pick it up again sometime.. soon..ish" project - my "IDER Box" - Integrated DMX and Ethernet Router
http://www.iderbox.org/

It currently has a Beaglebone Black board in it, but I've been playing with the latest Raspberry Pi the past couple weeks and thinking of restarting the project using a Pi.

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Michael Sauder
Show Control Programming and Design
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Web: www.shownet.io<http://www.shownet.io/>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Jonathan Zitelman via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net<mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
Catching up on my huge backlog of unread messages...  I took a Pi B+, added a TFT screen and attached (zips) it on a spare Enttec USB/DMX controller I had laying around for a low cost, portable controller.  Mainly a cheap, quick and dirty project just to do proof of concept.

The Pi allows for so much, just haven't had the time to build out other projects.  It would be a good base for a low cost, intricate cue system, particularly the Pi2 or Zero with the additional GPIO pins.
-Jonathan Z

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Jon Ares via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net<mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
Pi.... Mmm.

Has anyone created anything with the Raspberry Pi bits for use in
shows in some fashion?  Just curious. I think about Pi each time they
come out with something new, and once again it's in my mind with the
release of the Pi Zero this week.

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Jon Ares
www.arescreative.com<http://www.arescreative.com>
http://backstagethreads.com

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