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New Lighting iPhone App - iSquint
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Goddard Design Announces New DMX Tester – MiniDMXter4
Goddard Design, the makers of the industry popular DMX testing device, the DMXter, has just announced a new DMX testing device, the MiniDMXter4. Very similar to the old Lil’DMXter, the MiniDMXter4 fits in the palm of your hand and has additional features not found in the Lil’DMXter such as RDM management functions.
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The New Step for iPhone Lighting Apps
Yesterday I mentioned yet another lighting iPhone app being released to the market. It just adds to the growing list of lighting iPhone apps already out there. There are quite a few… less expensive iPhone apps that seem to do the exact same thing, just in a different way or with a different look. I [...]
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New iPhone App: DMX Color Mixer
I just heard about a new iPhone app that was released from 40oz Apps, DMX Color Mixer. You might know one of their other iPhone apps for lighting, DMX to Dip. 40oz Apps create simple and easy to use iPhone apps not only for lighting people, but also a couple BAC calculators for those [...]
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Dr. DMX YouTube Channel
Jfleenor, a user on the ControlBooth.com just recently put up a post about Dr. DMX, better known as Doug Fleenor from Dour Fleenor Design. Jfleenor is actually Janell Fleenor, Doug’s Daughter and Master DMX Blender from LDI 2009.
Janell posted over at the ControlBooth about DFD, (Doug Fleenor Design) latest adventures, the Dr. DMX YouTube Channel. [...]
Dr. DMX Develops Green Dimmers
Leave it to the good doctor, Doctor DMX, aka Doug Fleenor Designs, (DFD) to develop a new and interesting product for LDI this year. We all know that Doug Fleenor Design comes out with some pretty remarkable DMX products like the DMX/RDM Coffee Pot and the DMX-a-Sketch at past LDI’s. This year was no let [...]
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Baxter Controls Pocket iPhone DMX App
During LDI 2009, I got a chance to stop by the BCI or Baxter Controls booth to take a look at his latest product, the iPhone Virtual Pocket Console app. The iPhone app is still under development and is not ready for release as of yet. BCI did have a beta version of the App [...]
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Lumens in the Air with LumenRadio
One of the newer products that I got a chance to play with at LDI this year that wasn’t an LED fixture was the LumenRadio system. LumenRadio made it’s debut into the entertainment lighting industry at the PLASA show this year and took home PLASA’s 2009 Award for Innovation.
LumenRadio is a wireless system to send [...]
Swisson to Announce New Sine Wave Dimmer
Swisson is preparing to announce a couple of new products at the LDI Show tomorrow. The first being the XSD-D Satellite Sine Wave Dimmer pictured right. The XSD is a pretty flexible device as is can be operated as a dimmer, switch or a fixed stabilized voltage source.
The XSD is extremely quiet, currently used in [...]
ELC Lighting To Show off DMX-Over-Ethernet Devices For First Time at LDI
ELC Lighting out of Switzerland will be exhibiting at the LDI Show for the first time. ELC Lighting specializes in DMX distribution networks and specialized control products such as the dmXLAN node6x, their latest product. The dmXLAN node6x is and all in one DMX.ethernet solution. It features 6x DMX inputs/output ports and is fully compatible [...]
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Two New Products from Enttec at LDI
Looks like Enttec will be expanding their product line this year at LDI. The boys from down under are preparing to announce a new DMX opto-splitter to go with their DMXis controller. What is nice is that the D-spilter is not limited to just being used with the DMXis. It is a low cost, 4 [...]
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A Survey: Use of DMX vs. Ethernet
A long time reader and now friend of ours, Ben Peoples has put together a survey on Google Spreadsheets about using DMX 5-wire and DMX over ethernet in the rental market.
I’m trying to establish a baseline for how much people are using DMX-over-ethernet versus DMX over DMX wire in rental environments. From my perspective, given [...]
Enttec Introduces Din-LED4PX LED Driver
Enttec, the makers of such products as the DMXis and the MIDI Wing Panel has just introduced their latest control device, the DIN-LED4PX. It may seem like a complicated name, but it is a simple device. It is a 4 channel, constant voltage LED driver with DMX/RDM inputs that fits right to a din rail [...]
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