Our Tuesday Night Film Series continues on March 11.  This month is "Feel Good at the Strand."  (editor's note:  That is for the movies, not what goes on in the balcony...)   Tuesday we will show E.T. - THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL.   This is one of everyone's favorite movies.   If you haven't seen it on a movie screen in a while, now is your chance to relive the memory or see it for the first time!   The show starts at 7pm and tickets are available at the door. 

 

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It was a busy week at the Strand.   We have some exciting news coming in the next few weeks.   On Thursday Steve F. and David F. spent a 12 hour day planning for the future.   This is cool stuff....

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(warning, tech talk ahead)

It has been 2 years since our friend and Strand technical director Cody Veerkamp (1989 - 2023) passed away.   We are in the process of documenting all the great work Cody did for the Strand.   This month's project is to figure out all our DMX addresses with more than one universe.  

DMX lighting, or Digital Multiplex lighting, is a standardized protocol used for controlling multiple lighting fixtures and effects from a single controller. It allows for precise control over various parameters of the lights, such as brightness, color, and movement. We use it.

At the Strand we have two universes.  A DMX universe consists of 512 individual channels. Each channel can control one aspect of a light fixture.  Each fixture in a DMX system must be assigned a unique starting address. If Fixture A requires three channels and starts at address 1, it will use addresses 1 to 3. Fixture B can then start at address 4 if it also requires three channels and so on.

Cody was extremely clever in configuring the system.   We are just now mapping how it works.   As always, good job Cody.  Now you know.



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