Some users and their Manolators
Interfaces (if some sended picture are missing please email me again).
Thanks to all the people are
trying to make this interface....
Kristof Nys,
DMXDesk9 software and Krystof 64ch. Interface Author (Belgium):
“My Manolator interface”
Adrian Redman (Australia):
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Finished and working. As it was the first
electronics work I'd done in a while it took 6 hours to build. It does work wonderfully though! Total cost for me was AUD$87.50 including
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I couldn't find the IC's here in
Australia and as I didn't have a programmer already, I had the chip
pre-flashed by the guys at http://www.voti.nl
. Shipping them from the Netherlands was $$'ey but easy.
The wire ( I bought about 1m of rainbow ribbon - used about 80mm of
it). The dmx data extension cable (5m of 2 x twisted pair shielded data
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I've documented the process and will put them up on my website when I get a
chance.
You have a very good design there! Thanks for making the plans available for
free!
It's great.
Ta,
Adz
Jose (Laredo-Spain):
Te cuento la historia de mi manolator; Tengo un pub en Laredo-españa y he
cambiado los robots analógicos por dmx.
Para programar el pic me volví loco con el ic prog (que encima no programa el 16f88) hasta que encontré
el
winpicpr http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/winpicpr.html
es muy rápido e intuitivo, el programador que he
utilizado es una tarjeta
que se usa para el 16f84, es muy sencilla, tres resistencias, dos zener y un condensador, creo que se llama t-20, se
utilizaba para programar pics de tv-digital.
Ahí te envió las fotos y gracias de verdad, por la ayuda y por el
proyecto;
que llevaba tres días volviéndome loco y amargando a la familia ;-)
Jose.
Bertus kraaijeveld (Netherlands):
Oke here i go.
i found your work on the net after
searching gooogle about some home madem dmx project because to buy one is to
expensive.
i start with searching the pic and
the ic.
th ic and the pic where found bij
mij brother at www.voti.nl easy to get i even
asked for samples from pic.com or some but they are still on the way.
then i made the pic programmer
used with the software from OSHON they gif as u tell the software for free and
an example of the schematic they use... there are some failures about it but
that is take care of.
then i build you schematic on a
board. with his own power supply.(~6 volt> 7805 etc.)
i used your given software. it
works... at the first time/// i was happy... damn that was good stufff.
my brother and i where very
pleased at first time the movinghead was turning al kinds of ways when te dmx
software was turning on.
i thought is was my printer software
that was giving some problems later it
was the power supply that was giving to les power to the 7805 (6volt~input 3,7
volts output) after putting in a new trafo 9v~that problem was also solfed.
the moving head was really good
working with your sofware…
…i even want to setup a dutch site
with the manolator… if you are oke with it..
grz. bertus the netherlands
At the next week I will make the
picprogrammer so, hopefully I can test the manolator this week.
I am not familiar with electronics, and I have solded the thing withouth
problems (I almoust forgot to sold the condensator)
Just one litle tip, make sure if you cut the protobord, make anough space for
the contector itself, because I have had to cut the protoboard after solding
everything to get it in the contectorhouse.
Second tip: You can use a dremel to cut the protoboard.
greetzz
Wim Van Hulle
Raphaël Wellekens, FreeStyler Software Author (Belgium):
Because I sold the minidmx
interface I'm now become a full user of manolator interface…
Best regards.
Raphaël Wellekens
FreeStyler support & development
Hippy (Australia) OpenDmx Vbasic drivers and Hippy’s desk Software
author:
Manolator-- Fast, Cheap, Easy To
Build, Good Support, And it Works!
Herman Oving, the 2 and 3 DMX OutPuts lines Manolator mod. creator:
Together with my son, we develop
an RS232/ V24 interface to control a self build Atmel interface for light
purposes. We wrote in liberty basic the control software for it.
After searching in the internet we
found a much better and cheaper software, Manolator Software to control
the Atmels. But we needed a DMX Interface. So we started to build the
interface. There was only one problem, the space. The interface was so small,
that we thought it was difficult to build. But after a few days of study, we
were convinced that we could do better. We build the DMX Interface with two
drivers for two dmx lines.
Simple, easy and it works!
Here is our new version of the
Manolator interface, with three line drivers, which is our next project. For
the layout we use the Eagle Layout Software. www.cadsoft.de
For programming the PIC, of course
from www.voti.nl, we build an on
the fly circuit on a test pcb.
A screenshot of the super
software. Not only the software is very sophisticated, the support and the
kindliness of Manuel is one of the best we have seen. It has been a pleasure
exchanging information with him.
For controlling the the lights, we
use several Atmel ATMega8515 interfaces. Reprogramming this interface to dmx was
the hardest problem. Building a Manolator dmx interface is very easy.
Regards
Herman
(thanks
Herman for your so kind words...)
Lars Kramer (Germany):
“ It works great ! I like it Great work”
He had a
Kristof Nys interface and discover us, then he upgradded his interface to 256
ch.
Here are
some pictures, with a “pro” look!
