Thanks Meadhbh! That's pretty badass. I've already given the tickets to John but I'll definitely ping you when we migrate our home lighting to midi. Looking forward to seeing what happens when I plug it into my keyboard and play chopsticks. :)
> we used the roland DCB (Digital Control Bus) a pre-cursor to MIDI at
> the museum of science and history to control lighting in some of the
> exhibits and in the noble planetarium. it turns out that the DCB had
> just enough intelligence to handle "light on / light off", used
> inexpensive cabling, and had a thriving early digital musician hacker
> scene. we were able to hack together a simple system for about half
> the cost of a "professional" museum exhibit lighting control unit. it
> couldn't do as much, but worked fine for what we needed.
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> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:05 PM, John Haskey <goo...@haskey.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 May 2012, Peter Chester wrote:
>>> First person to describe an unusual use of MIDI gets 2 free tickets to
>>> tomorrow's Maker Faire. :)
>> When I was a wee lad I designed a digital control system for a model
>> railroad that used the MIDI protocol. That pre-dated what we know today as
>> DCC by several years.
>> Now I just use if for boring things like automating pipe organs and such.
>> ---john.
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