So this terrifically drawn picture shows what I want to end up making. Looking around on the tinkerkit site I found a couple of the sensors that I need, specifically the Linear Potentiometer. They also have the buttons that are needed but they don’t have a touchpad but it can be replaced with a joy stick for prototype purposes. The last thing that would then need is an OLED which the tinker kit site doesn’t have but that ok because a quick google search show quite a couple of decent demos. Not shown in the pictures but also need for the final version of my product would be some sort of wireless communicator, a bluetooth connection would be nice.
Now in case most of you don’t remember I want to make a mobile controller that can control stage lights and or simple devices. I hope to get as far as getting the potentiometer to display some output on the OLED.
your design seems like it can lead to a mini controller for a pc/mac. it’d be cool if you can get this to work. i feel like there aren’t really a lot of products or good apps for android/iphone that can act as a controller for pc/mac.
How would you hook this up to a lighting instrument? You would probably need some adapters to be able to plug in a stage pin cable to this.
What kind of lighting instrument do you intend to control, and what kind of control are you thinking about?
I have no idea how to operate lighting equipment, but I still believe this is doable. A controller would work easily with other ‘simple’ devices.
Nice sketch, by the way.