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A project log for VisualK-OS (v5.0)

rPi/Arduino-Powered Multi-Component Stage Lighting/FX System

kevin-slaughterlord-k-osKevin Slaughter/Lord K-OS 09/27/2019 at 10:010 Comments

The current version of stable (as far as I know...) software has been uploaded. This includes the Arduino source code, which uses ShiftPWM with default RGB wiring over SPI to boards containing daisychained (via Q8/Serial out on the 74HC595 chips) shift registers. This script uses Python 2.7 and does require PyGame, PIL, and PySerial to be installed.

*** Linux: Use "python vkos_cc.py --emu" to test-drive the GUI, without the proprietary hardware requirements. While Python is cross-platform, I have no intention of making this software fully Windows compatible, as it is not meant to stand alone as a GUI engine. I have provided the source code merely so that others may possibly benefit from my trial-and-error results.

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