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Sven Meier

Hello, I am the light technican of a amateur theater group.

This year we preformed Macbeth (you can see pictures here http://www.facebook.com/JusteVMinden/photos_stream)

QLC Plus controls 8x Powerbar 5 , 12x AT3 (LED RGB)

In the next show, it will control 4x YPOC 757 Pro , 8x Powerbar 5 , 12x AT3 (LED RGB) an some normal dimmer channels :-)

I had the option to use the GrandMA, but I much prefer use QLC PLus :-)
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Massimo Callegari

Hello Sven, thank you very much for your post !
It relieves me to know that QLC+ is getting adopted as preferred solution compared to huge softwares like GrandMA.
Means my efforts are somehow reaching their goal :)

I've seen the pictures you shared. Very nice !
Would you like to share your experience as a "user case" in the official QLC+ website ? http://www.qlcplus.org/use_case.html

If you provide the info in that way, I'd be happy to add it to the page.

Thanks again
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Sven Meier

I have to thank for this great software. :-)

The theater technique is just a hobby of mine.

In the middle of this year i have started to developing a "Qdesk".
The CuQdesk is a Cubieboard based Light Controller that runs QLC+

You can see the design here:
http://www.sme-digital.de/qdesk/qdesk_overview.png

Planned Features:
12x Motorized Faders
8x Rotary Encoder with LED Feedback
Many Switches to control anything you want
11" Touchscreen
Trackball
...



Currently i am testing the hardware and writing the firmware that controls the motorised faders.
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Massimo Callegari

Hey Sven, Chrome says your link contains malware :S
What do you think about my previous proposal of sharing your use case ?
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Sven Meier

Yes, i will write a user case :-)

In the link is nothing malware, it is just a picture...
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Sven Meier

I have uploaded it again ... http://www.sme-digital.de/qdesk/CuQdesk.pdf
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Massimo Callegari

I've been able to see it with Firefox but I think the problem is not the picture itself but the domain.
I guess www.sme-digital.de went on some blacklist for reasons unknown to me...

Anyway...AWESOME job ! If you ever get to build that console...build 2 of them (one for me) ! :)
I'm just kidding but that would be great :)

Of course if you're willing to sell it, you should talk to Heikki and me first
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Chris Laurie

Wow that looks amazing, details please?! What is the basis for the interface, midi, osc?
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Sven Meier

Hello Chris, the Basic of the interface is SPI :-)

This means multiple Boards are connected to one master Board.

I am currently planing this boards:

Mainboard:
SPI input to use the Cubieboard Hardware SPI
USB interface to the PC eg. Cubieboard, Raspberry Pi, Normal Pc ...
Multiple SPI outputs to the "Slave" boards
2x DMX I/O , you can select input or output :-)


Fader Board:
controls 4 motorised slider
8 digital inputs (keys)
8 digital outputs (for leds)
4x pwm output to control RGB leds (can be used to illuminate the slider in the selected color for the click and go function)

Key Board:
32x Digital inputs
32x Digital outputs (for leds)
8x Analog Inputs (for normal potentiometers)

Encoder Board:
4x Encoder input
4x Output for LED Ring (feedback)

To connect it to QLC i will write a python script that converts the signals to OSC ...
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Sven Meier

And all of these will be open source/hardware.
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Chris Laurie

I'm not sure I far down you are with this, but I would consider adding few joystick XY controls that can control the XY pad widgets to control moving head positioning.
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