Myself and some others are currently working on a lighting project in which we need to control the High-Output LEDs with an Arduino, the way we've opted to go about this is through the use of a DMX driver which will hopefully be controlled by an Arduino Uno with a MAX485 DMX shield on top, as a result of this post.
So far, we've wired the 24V driver into the DMX driver (LINEARDrive 222d) and then wired the LED strip into the DMX driver as well. On the arduino side, we've mounted the shield and using an XLR cable, wired that into the DMX +, -, and shield pins of the DMX driver. The issue we're now running into, is how do we wire the shield into the arduino and then how do we program the arduino to control the DMX? can anybody steer us in the right direction?
I've attached some images to show roughly what we've done.
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Well the shield should fit onto the UNO,
For coding an UNO i use Conceptinetics.h that works like a charm usually, of course i am not sure what shield you have now and what pins it uses, but i assume it just uses the hardware Serial as it should, and maybe some pins for enabling and disabling the transceiver.
