E1.31 + wifi on adruino - we need your help on thatrical dance show startup project

[AlCan13]

Good day,

We are a startup and located in Calgary, Canada. I have came to your profile here because I was looking for a developer (for lack of better term) who might be interested in working with theatrical dance show (LED-lit costumes). And I saw your work at multiple places ion Internet.

here is our website http://maskscorp.com/
there you can see costumes.

So far we had 2 shows @500 people each and experienced numerous issues with those LED costumes.

Our costume designer who created masks and costumes is very talented on fashion part, but lacking technical skills for developing stable and flexible platform that would provide control over costumes using standard communication and control protocols like WiFi and E1.31.

please let me know if you would be interested in working with us.

thanks in advance.
Alexey

[quidamn]

something like this?
http://www.lhsstageplayers.org/wp-content/themes/catch-flames/images/demo/slxp-5-slider-1100x400.jpg

[AlCan13]

I think so.
If they can be controlled via WiFi from Lighting control board.

[quidamn]

something like this would allow some very diverse choices
http://robertoostenveld.nl/esp-8266-art-net-neopixel-module/

ESP chips can be had for $3-5 US.
they're very inexpensive and run 802.11n. they also run at 80Mhz and can be programmed with the Arduino environment.
however, the most heavily lit of my actors had nearly 1000 individual LEDs. I had to ensure nearly 45 amps of power was available when needed.

[AlCan13]

Hi quidamn,

can you share your s/w and h/w design.
I am not into coding just because there are way too many things I am expected to do as "Tech Director" ;) .
or what are conditions you can share?

Alexey

[ThomasH-W]

Hi Alexey,

First of all Kudos to your work. Really amazing.

We created a show with unicycles using WiFi and E1.31 : http://unicycle.hoeser-medien.de/?lang=EN

The cheapest solution was to use NodeMCU modules and attaching a piggy board with MOSFET.
As I am using in the meantime 14 modules and planning to add another 6, so a simple design was important to be fast when assembling the devices. For testing purposes I used EL-wires with an optocoupler. But I did abandom this, as I was reluctant to have 100V on the bodies of my kids.

The show has been created in Vixen. It is for free but powerfull and easy to use. Anyway you can use any software being able to send E1.31 in multicast mode.

A brief description and schematics of the system are here:
http://www.hoeser-medien.de/2017/03/esp8266-dmx-modul-mit-web-server/

The software is right now tailored to my needs and every module is just designed to attach one RGB stripe. Nevertheless you can use MOSFETs or an external P9813 interface. In addtion every module can be used to control any DMX spot or act as E1.31 sender for testing purposes.

I am not a professional programmer but could share the code so you would have a starting point.

Later on, I have found a different approach, but the modules do look much more professional. He might be able to help as well.
http://www.billporter.info/2016/01/18/espixel-gece-wifi-pixel-controller/

Thomas

[forkineye]

Hello,
You may be interested in my project which drove the development of this library, ESPixelStick - https://github.com/forkineye/ESPixelStick.

[AlCan13]

thanks, will have a close look

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