Is the setup of APC40 + ShowCockpit + MA3 relatively straightforward? I am not finding much info or tutorials. Could be a good idea for a future video!
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hey @ConnorEhrgood, realy nice Video, apreachiate your work! is ther any chance to get the Code of that ? "GITHUB LINK WILL BE ADDED SOON" 🙈 That would be awsome :) And the best would be to add already a licence :) Thank you verry much 😊
It's a shame that the project wasn't continued. I think the idea of incorporating such functions into the moving spot of size is really cool. I'm currently thinking about replicating the gobo wheel idea from the previous video for 5 moving spots. Maybe there will be another update to the modified moving spot in the future :)
So i got one of those and i like them but i wanted some more power so i order a 20w led kit and made a 3dmodel and got 2 gobo wheels and a color wheel and i put in the led and the ouput looks like an 2w flaslight for some reason it realy is not bright do u have some tips for that?
Hey Conner. For a medium sized bang which is easy to set n strike I think you nailed it. Now this was 2 years ago as I watch it now in 2024....What state is this venue in and what did this gig alone earn you for the night, or rather afternoon and into the late night?
Hey, thanks! Paint may be an option, but the black would likely turn too much of the light into heat and melt the plastic. Perhaps a good, opaque, white paint would do it. Thanks for watching!
Maybe rather than 3d printing these out of plastic you could send them off to a cheap laser service. similar to the service used to make stencils for solder paste? Idk if sendcutsend can do this or not.
There was a brief while I though about this for making them in bulk to sell. It would totally work. I've done this before for more standard gobos. Quick turnaround and mega cheap. Thanks for watching!
The fiber end face can and WILL get contaminated. I mean sure you can do whatever method you want at the end of the day…it’s not the common practice in the states however.
Thanks! A good, opaque white paint may be able to pull this off. It would come down to whether the little bit of heat wicking provided by the aluminum tape is actually needed, and that is something I'm not sure of. Worth a shot, I'd say! Thatns for watching!
Very cool video! I have a few of these lights and never even thought about the upgrade potentials. I like the CMY colour mixing idea as well, it sounds very difficult to accomplish though. Have you considered whether adding RGB led modules along with the built in white one to get RGB colour mixing is feasible? I have no experience in this type of modding so perhaps you've ruled it out for an obvious reason, sounds more doable to me off the top of my head though
Hey, thanks for watching! I've considered using an RGB LED, but I suspect I would struggle to source a sufficiently bright LED and know that my limited optical knowledge would likely not yield the nice even mix I'd be after, although maybe it's simpler than I'm thinking. Looks like there's room for others to improve these further!
I believe that is the case. My understanding is that the entire MA2 integration in SC is through the web UI. I'm thinking it worked differently on MA2 in that maybe it had discrete commands and control instead of implementing a remote desktop type thing. Not sure, though. Thanks for watching!
I'm working on a very similar project but for the ETC Eos software, luckily for me they have an open source usb-serial implementation with some well commented example code for arduino. Very cool though, I will make something similar if/when i switch to MA
Hey! Thanks for watching! I was hoping I would be able to make these backlit like the ones on the console, but that opens a pretty big can of worms when using the web ui method because the console only sends back a video stream, no discrete data. That means we'd have to receive a video stream and try to process it to extract data. Possible? Yes, but we'd likely need more processing power and a whole lot more code. At that point a lua setup of some sort may be a better option. This is just the beginnings of a larger project I'm calling OpenSurface. Keep an eye out for updates on that!
Closer than ever, but progress has been slow. This has been sitting on the back burner for, what, 5 years now? Some day! I have a new job now and will hopefully have a bit more free tome to wrap this up. Keep an eye out! Thanks For watching!
Ah, if only! Maybe some day, but definitely not today. These are just cheap compared to the bigger name ones that range in price from about $10,000 to $50,000. Definitely an investment for us, but one that's paid off pretty well so far!
Hi, we are planning to use some leftover direct burial fiber in a project. This fiber is a 24 ribbon. If we separate the strands out and splice individually, I can't see why this machine wouldn't work. If it's 9/125 SM, the machine shouldn't really care about anything past the cladding, right?
Yes you can split ribbon fibre and splice in a signal fibre splicer it just painstaking, I have done this in an emergency where I didn't have access to a ribbon splicer
Thanks for watching and your kind words! Much more to come! Modular, road-worthy, computer-independent/integrated, custom control surfaces anyone? How about an ultra-affordable, multi channel, config-free, decentralized, internet agnostic, networked comms system (This one may or may not already be built! 👀) ? Stay tuned!
Hmm... Generally our splices (all SM) are near zero loss and don't usually leak enough light from a VFL to be visible. I haven't looked at any in complete darkness, though.
