My partner Sarah and I just showed off our Robot Army in the Dark Room at MakerFaire 2015. We used QLC+ to control 84 delta robots.
We created a custom QLC fixture for our robot which controlled the three axis and RGB color. Our 84 robots (at six channels each) just barely fit into one Universe.
Our robots are custom built from 3D printed parts. The 'brain' PCB board inside each robot is an Arduino compatible custom PCB that we hand assembled.
The DMX hardware is all custom as well. We use the FTDI RS-485 dongle modified to a Cat5 connector. Our robots are arranged in 12 palettes of seven each. Each palette has a custom PCB with cat5 connectors on it. Each palette is daisy chained to the next. Inside each palette, we repeat the DMX signal to a shorter length DMX run that connects all the robots together. Our set-up and teardown are pretty simple as a result. Using Cat5 also kept our cabling costs down.
Here's a video of me describing the DMX infrastructure:
Sarah was new to QLC and had less than a week to learn how to do lighting design with QLC. In only a couple days, she had the robots doing some amazing things! QLC looked daunting to learn at first, but Massimo's YouTube tutorials got us quickly making new content for our installation!
Check out the technical article Sarah posted to Hackaday (includes videos): http://hackaday.com/2015/06/02/my-robot ... ker-faire/
Our Main Website is: http://lightplay.zoness.com
Awesome software!
Mark Koch
Community videos using QLC+
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It expands my heart to see how QLC+ is helping people to be creative and to give life to their projects.maehem wrote:My partner Sarah and I just showed off our Robot Army in the Dark Room at MakerFaire 2015. We used QLC+ to control 84 delta robots.
Thank you very much Sarah and Mark for sharing this.
I'd have a whole bunch of questions to ask, but I guess you guys are busy in showing your work around, so for now I'll keep them for myself
(one above all if you'd like to go into the QLC+ website use cases)
As a personal taste, it would super cool if all those green rubber bands attached to the LEDs were made of plastic fiber, so they could transmit the LED color along the arms (legs?
) !Great job indeed ! And great patience in soldering all that stuff !
P.S. I hope visitors noticed QLC+ and more projects like this could come in the future !
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Massimo,
If you're ever in Vegas, drop by and say hi.
Mark and Sarah
If you're ever in Vegas, drop by and say hi.
Mark and Sarah
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Massimo,
I forgot to answer your question about adding our project to your use cases. Yes! Feel free to add info about the project to your website and the top of this thread.
If you need more details about anything, please ask.
Mark
I forgot to answer your question about adding our project to your use cases. Yes! Feel free to add info about the project to your website and the top of this thread.
If you need more details about anything, please ask.
Mark
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Very nice one ! Thanks for sharingwah0808 wrote:Video from an Ice show I did back in April. 20 GLP Impression, 4 Vari Lite VL250 and one 12 Channel DMX Relay controlling Non-dim circuits in the building.
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This is another implementation of a small stage.
with:
Starway Mode B
Starway FullKolor
Starway UrbanKolor
Excellent QLC software
with:
Starway Mode B
Starway FullKolor
Starway UrbanKolor
Excellent QLC software
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Hi guys,
thanks to QLC+ I can control from the stage light and video and play music of the show at the same time. I use latest QLC+ with qt5 on manjaro linux 64 with an APC mini midi controller, an Enttec opendmx usb, and a logitech webcam.
Here's Macbeth experience :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsL7Q-XY5No
thanks to QLC+ I can control from the stage light and video and play music of the show at the same time. I use latest QLC+ with qt5 on manjaro linux 64 with an APC mini midi controller, an Enttec opendmx usb, and a logitech webcam.
Here's Macbeth experience :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsL7Q-XY5No
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Hi all. I have just started using QLC+ at work.
It is running on a dell aio touchscreen using an entec usb to dmx adapter running 4 Martin Rush MH5 profiles. They are used for effects and follow spots.
As this is a strip club the the link is probably NSFW.
There are also 6 LED RGBWAUV par cans that I plan on controlling in the next week as well.
I created the MH5 profiles from scratch. Took about 5 hours of typing values...
I have done a bit of a clean up of the visual console buttons since this show was filmed to make it a bit easier to follow the girls around.. (Some of them move pretty fast..). The video for heat 2 will be ready soon..
It is running on a dell aio touchscreen using an entec usb to dmx adapter running 4 Martin Rush MH5 profiles. They are used for effects and follow spots.
As this is a strip club the the link is probably NSFW.
There are also 6 LED RGBWAUV par cans that I plan on controlling in the next week as well.
I created the MH5 profiles from scratch. Took about 5 hours of typing values...
I have done a bit of a clean up of the visual console buttons since this show was filmed to make it a bit easier to follow the girls around.. (Some of them move pretty fast..). The video for heat 2 will be ready soon..
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Wow George, that video surely catches the eye !
A miracle YouTube accepts contents like that
Is QLC+ providing the audio as well during the performances ?
Thanks for sharing
A miracle YouTube accepts contents like that
Is QLC+ providing the audio as well during the performances ?
Thanks for sharing
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No audio yet but that is the ideal situation. The girls shows are currently run off USB through the mixer but ultimately I would like to set up showfiles in qlc+
The guys who edit the videos are pretty good. You will notice there is no actual rude bits in the video but it is borderline..
The guys who edit the videos are pretty good. You will notice there is no actual rude bits in the video but it is borderline..
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Sorry about the quality of the picture. Hopefully you can see that I have the buttons for head positioning set up to mirror the stage. This is the first time I have ever done this so this is what made sense to me at the time.
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Last realized by means of QLCplus, AKAI APC40 and APC 20.
List of equipment:
- 8x Martin MAC500
- 7x MArtin MAC600
- 2x Blinder
- 16x ADJ Mega TriPar
- 6x Flash PAR56 RGBW 12x10W
- smoke machine
- strobe
Edit: janosvitok, fixed formatting
List of equipment:
- 8x Martin MAC500
- 7x MArtin MAC600
- 2x Blinder
- 16x ADJ Mega TriPar
- 6x Flash PAR56 RGBW 12x10W
- smoke machine
- strobe
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There's also Wonder Woman ! 
Seriosuly, it would be nice to know which equipment you are using in that club and other techy details (how many universes, the DMX adapter used, etc...)
Seriosuly, it would be nice to know which equipment you are using in that club and other techy details (how many universes, the DMX adapter used, etc...)
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Yes, the superhero theme is quite popular...
Current setup is...
Dell all in one 20 inch touchscreen computer running windows 8.1
Micro DMX USB adapter (cheap eBay version)
4 Martin MH5 profile moving heads (16 channel mode)
6 Showtec RGBAWUV LED PAR cans (8 channel mode)
Single universe.
I haven't played around with multiple universes yet but I have an entec USB adapter spare so I might try that soon. I have a few other FTDI based adapters that I have tried as well and most of the cheap eBay ones work fine when using the mouse or keyboard to trigger the virtual console buttons but there is an annoying delay when using them with the touchscreen..will need to do some investigations to find out why that is happening..
Anyway, the video for the final will be done soon.. Can't tell you who wins as that would ruin the surprise...
Current setup is...
Dell all in one 20 inch touchscreen computer running windows 8.1
Micro DMX USB adapter (cheap eBay version)
4 Martin MH5 profile moving heads (16 channel mode)
6 Showtec RGBAWUV LED PAR cans (8 channel mode)
Single universe.
I haven't played around with multiple universes yet but I have an entec USB adapter spare so I might try that soon. I have a few other FTDI based adapters that I have tried as well and most of the cheap eBay ones work fine when using the mouse or keyboard to trigger the virtual console buttons but there is an annoying delay when using them with the touchscreen..will need to do some investigations to find out why that is happening..
Anyway, the video for the final will be done soon.. Can't tell you who wins as that would ruin the surprise...
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Cheers,
"In Eberbach 3 Tage wach..." (3 days awake - well, a few hours of sleepin' in between are already tolerable...)
On Friday at beer garden, I was condemned to mix a Mallorca party. The DJ & "Almklausi" - no further comments.
4x Futurelight PHW-250 at the inner corners, QLC+ replaced GLP Scan Operator12pt.
More than 5 hours w/o unwanted interruptions, live editing functions w/o stress and mostly playing EFX relative to various positions...
On Sat. & Sunday I complemented Espi's Job with a pair of MH-660 spots, modular concept programming.
Could already complete the DIY footlights, too. Anyone who knows something brighter than these 5050 RGB LED, 60 pcs/m?
You're welcome to enjoy some fine Ska at Lo-Fi: http://mschulz-it.de/backstage/2015_gassenfest/
QLC+ v4.9.1 is already at a decent state, thanks to all developers, accessaries and especially to Massimo,
Let's get QLC+ v5 to take the cake!
"In Eberbach 3 Tage wach..." (3 days awake - well, a few hours of sleepin' in between are already tolerable...)
On Friday at beer garden, I was condemned to mix a Mallorca party. The DJ & "Almklausi" - no further comments.
4x Futurelight PHW-250 at the inner corners, QLC+ replaced GLP Scan Operator12pt.
More than 5 hours w/o unwanted interruptions, live editing functions w/o stress and mostly playing EFX relative to various positions...
On Sat. & Sunday I complemented Espi's Job with a pair of MH-660 spots, modular concept programming.
Could already complete the DIY footlights, too. Anyone who knows something brighter than these 5050 RGB LED, 60 pcs/m?
You're welcome to enjoy some fine Ska at Lo-Fi: http://mschulz-it.de/backstage/2015_gassenfest/
QLC+ v4.9.1 is already at a decent state, thanks to all developers, accessaries and especially to Massimo,
Let's get QLC+ v5 to take the cake!
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Massimo,
I know you're generally looking for unique uses of QLC+ for this section and I think I probably have one for you. If you like it, I'll do a video and post it up. Here's what makes it unique. In addition to controlling the lighting and video in my bar which consists of the following:
• 6 Chauvet Intimidator Spot 150s
• 1 Elation Event Bar
• A handfull of other LED fixtures on the interior
• 4 Chauvet Colorband Pix IP (exteriors)
• Mad Mapper (for video)
• 7 HD TVs
• 3 projectors (2 for a video mapped bar top and 1 mapped to a logo)
and here's the (I believe) unique part...
1 Behringer X-Air 18 Digital Mixer.
I recently implemented the Scripts in QLC+ in conjunction with a small bash script and a little program that sends OSC to the X-Air so that I can control all of the inputs (for DJs) directly through QLC+. It's really quite awesome and something that I've wanted for quite some time. I've not had an opportunity to use the scripts function of QLC+ before this and I have to say, it's really a very excellent feature. One little hack that I employed to reflect the status of the currently selected input, is that I used a dummy fixture with dummy scenes in solo frames (otherwise the buttons don't stay active when clicked).
Hope you like it! I definitely do!
I know you're generally looking for unique uses of QLC+ for this section and I think I probably have one for you. If you like it, I'll do a video and post it up. Here's what makes it unique. In addition to controlling the lighting and video in my bar which consists of the following:
• 6 Chauvet Intimidator Spot 150s
• 1 Elation Event Bar
• A handfull of other LED fixtures on the interior
• 4 Chauvet Colorband Pix IP (exteriors)
• Mad Mapper (for video)
• 7 HD TVs
• 3 projectors (2 for a video mapped bar top and 1 mapped to a logo)
and here's the (I believe) unique part...
1 Behringer X-Air 18 Digital Mixer.
I recently implemented the Scripts in QLC+ in conjunction with a small bash script and a little program that sends OSC to the X-Air so that I can control all of the inputs (for DJs) directly through QLC+. It's really quite awesome and something that I've wanted for quite some time. I've not had an opportunity to use the scripts function of QLC+ before this and I have to say, it's really a very excellent feature. One little hack that I employed to reflect the status of the currently selected input, is that I used a dummy fixture with dummy scenes in solo frames (otherwise the buttons don't stay active when clicked).
Hope you like it! I definitely do!