design stage lighting control system please help!!!

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design stage lighting control system please help!!!

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Hello to all of you!!!
I've assignment to do and i don't really know how to start and what to do!? Can anybody please help me?? I know that there is a lot of extremely cleaver people, if you are one of them (i'm definitely not) please help me!!
Thanks Jessica McBrow

I need to design a stage lighting system that can control the intensity of lights from a pc based in lighting control room. Use processing to produce a basic stage layout on the pc display showing the position and status of the lights. Send the light status information to the arduino microcontroller and program the arduino to control your stage lights. For this exercise just design for two lights. Use LED for the lights. The system should be able to control each light independently.

Notes:

Use a Processing Frame Rate of 10.
Sending light status to Arduino send 3 pieces of information
1) A Header to indicate data is being sent (eg port.write ('A')
2) Light1 status
3) Light2 status

Put delay(10) between each write statement
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Use your protoboard to make a simple stage arrangement with two LEDs as the lights.
Program the Arduino microcontroller to read the data being sent from Processing and control each LED

Use if Serial.available() statement to look for incoming data
When data received use - Serial.read() statement
When header has been detected use - while (!Serial.available()) {}
This is used to do nothing while there is nothing available on the serial input.
This can be followed by the next Serial.read() statement

Suggested steps:
1) Design PC display in Processing
2) Send the light information to the serial port of the PC
3) Program Arduino to read the data sent from Processing
4) Use the values received to control the intensity of the LEDs connected to Arduino.

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Re: design stage lighting control system please help!!!

Post by eil »

Hmm. "For this exercise..." Is this a homework question?

What in particular are you having trouble with?

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Re: design stage lighting control system please help!!!

Post by Entropy »

Yeah, she says "I have an assignment to do".

Without details about what you're having trouble with it's hard to help.

The LEDs are easy - Connect one to each of the PWM outputs. For a normal 5mm LED you can drive it directly from the pin: +5v->330 ohm resistor->LED->pin

If you want to get fancy (extra credit?) use a ULN2803 to sink current (allowing, as an example, Luxeons to be used as the LEDs.)

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Re: design stage lighting control system please help!!!

Post by Rina »

I'd like to help, do you need advice on there to find Leds etc? any details?
I recently bought a lot of material (https://www.mrosupply.com/) for control system, but I
ask you particually about LEDs since I know more

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