Jan 17, 2021
Hi, and an extremely good 2021 to all of you.
We start off this brand new year talking about some totally
unrelated and slightly more related new year's
resolutions,
a miniscule car fix, and glueing with a 3D
printing pen. All in not much more detail than stated
here.
Continuing on last episode's VGA generator board, I added a
DMX512 interface as suggested by some people -
thank you for
the idea. I found Q Light Controller Plus
(qlcplus) a nice and so far solid piece of software for
controlling DMX devices
from a laptop + USB/RS485 converter cable.
A potential issue (or at least in my head) when making
interlinked devices like these, is potentially different
ground-potentials
depending on which power outlets you use to power networked your
device. (See what I did there?) We talk a bit about how to
guesstimate
the possible magnitude of this difference.
Just for fun I made an xmas LED star-shaped
decoration using an existing DIY LED driver board. Reuse
everything, recycle success.
Also, made a modular transparant acrylic home LED
decoration: shine light into the edge of an engraved piece
of acrylic. Of course
there was failure, this time in the form of hygroscopic
LEDs + laziness + oven = damage.
Finally, I made a small power switch PCB, to be
placed in between USB power source and USB device: automatically
switch the device off
when the environment goes dark.
And remember: if YOU want to make this podcast suck less, please send comments, rants, complaints, threats and/or praise. :-)
Relevant links:
Pics of things talked about:
DMX512 VGA generator boards.
Engraved acrylic LED decoration PCB in action.
...in its base, open...
...and closed up.
LDR USB power switch board...
...and schematic.