hi to all

[ARBJ]

hi to all i found a website www.silicomchip.com issue 265,266,267, a digital lighting controller with sd card let me know what you think arbj

[scubaspookf]

I think this is the correct link as I could not get to the other http://www.siliconchip.com.au/

[P. Short]

It appears that you have to pay to see the entire article. If so, no thanks.

[ARBJ]

It appears that you have to pay to see the entire article. If so, no thanks.

it for free i made a mistake it www.siloconchip.com.au

[budude]

it for free i made a mistake it www.siloconchip.com.au

nope... the correct link is noted in post #2 and it's only half free as Phil mentioned - you have to pay $8.80 for each article to get the whole thing so I think I'll save my $26.40... looks a bit interesting though...

[T.D.Sutton]

Hi Guy's

Don't waste your time on the "Silicon Chip" box, I commented about it in :-

http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...-DIYC-Invasion

some time back, I think from memory, it only goes to 64 Channels max and is "Pre-Programmed" to do random "Blinky Flashy" while playing the music off the SD Card.

I have all the issues here in my library, and could scan them if required, but I wouldn't waste my time on the project!!

Cheers,

Terry

[P. Short]

What's curious about the project is the DSPIC on the board, that should have the horsepower to do more than just random 'blinky-flashy'.

[mrpackethead]

What's curious about the project is the DSPIC on the board, that should have the horsepower to do more than just random 'blinky-flashy'.

However, you can program them to do really useful stuff very quickly. Theres actually no prize for saving 0.60c by extreme programing that took 700 hours.

[P. Short]

I wasn't trying to suggest using a cheaper processor (as you implied), rather that the processor is so powerful that there are lots of neat things that they could have done (admitting that I haven't read the pay-walled part of the articles). Since there are doubtlessly FFT libraries and the like available, there is the possibility that they could have automatically synced the lights to the audio music spectrum... It would have taken more work to add this feature (assuming that it isn't already there), but would not necessarily involve low-level programming.

[Reddy_Kilowatt]

FWIW, the firmware and software source code are available here:

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/at...month=November

It appears the software has some DSP capability.

-Craig