Sean Meighan
General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: airmedics on November 11, 2020, 01:30:57 PM
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!! Total noob here. But excited to jump on board (No pun intended) Ok so here's what I'm planning and don't know where to start. I am doing a christmas carol haunted scene in my yard. There will be actual static props of each ghost and of scrooge. I will be using a projector to play some background scenes but it will be playing the audio of scrooge and each ghost. What I need to do is have each ghost light up during their scene with a led spotlight. (4 or 5 lights in all, and 2 of them need to change colors with the scene) I also need to trigger a snow machine according to scene. What would you use to control this and what lights?? The more I look into it the more confused I get. Thanks
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Essentially it is just a very small light show with some other effects. You could absolutely build it in xLights and play it from a computer or from a raspberry pi using FPP (or several if your video locations are remote from each other).
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To control the lights and snow machine (assuming the snow machine has DMX control) you could use something simple like Alan's rPi-28D+ board http://www.hansonelectronics.com.au/product/rpi-28dplus/ (http://www.hansonelectronics.com.au/product/rpi-28dplus/) fitted to a Pi.
( wired watts sells Alan's board in the USA https://www.wiredwatts.com/hanrpi28d (https://www.wiredwatts.com/hanrpi28d) )
For the spotlights something like these small floods https://www.wiredwatts.com/sf10wkp3-10w-smart-flood-light (https://www.wiredwatts.com/sf10wkp3-10w-smart-flood-light)