Useful apps for LED, projection and network made by Darren Alexander @ CTUS.
FidoLED is a LED Screen calculator. Dial up the manufacturer, the model and then enter the size you want in Modules, Metres, MM, Inches or feet and it will return to you the number of pixels for the given screen, the width, height and weight of the screen plus the power draw for the screen.
It will also generate a print out of the information as well as generate grids of the led screen in pixels for helping to make pixel mapped content, you can spit out just the actual screen in pixels, or set on a standard video canvas with or without a pixel shift offset, or as a photoshop script file so that you can modify it in photoshop for the more creative screens.
FidoLED was originally written for the PM’s and Techs of Creative Technology (CT) the Database is very heavy on CT owned tiles. There is a small CT Logo in a red circle to the right of the make and model selection – to see every tile in the database just tap the CT Logo so that its crossed out and you will see all the tiles in the database, to see only the CT Owned tiles tap the CT logo again and it will filter the database to tiles owned by them
BlendZ was written to save time working-out and re-calculating the math for large, widescreen, overlapping (blending) projectors, to make up screens larger than a single projector’s image. If you need to work out the math for a wide screen projection surface using multiple projectors BlendZ is for you.
To begin all you need to know is the desired width and height of the projection surface, the native chip resolution of the projectors (or output resolution of the source device) you are planning to use, and the number of projectors you think you need. Then, BlendZ will give you all the information you need. BlendZ works in both Feet and Metres, just choose your preferred flavour of measurement and off you go.
Grids generator for single, blended screens and has ability to generate a lineup grid for times when you had to throw away pixels. It can generate bars and greyscale too.
The M2 Processor (by Brompton*) is used on Large LED video screen, it takes in a variety of inputs and has 4 output ports that can drive up to a maximum of 500,000 pixels per port, but there are some conditions. Frame Rate, Colour Depth and how many pixels each connected tile has can impact the number of tiles you can drive per Port.
By selecting the type of LED tile in the wall (Currently CT only has the Roe MC7HB the Black OnyX 3.47, the Black OnyX 2.84 and the Carbon 4 LED tile with the Brompton Receiver Cards installed) and selecting a frame rate, and colour depth you can see how many tiles you can connect to each port. By inputting the LED walls width and height in tiles, and the number of tiles you want to run on the processors (knowing the number of tiles per port) you will be shown how many Processors are required.
Network Noodle
Network Noodle is a small application that very quickly tells you the internal IP address of your computer, your public IP address and where on the planet it thinks you are by getting information from the internet about location from your public IP address.
This is a handy program for any network IT tech that is on site that has to hop on and off various networks to test connectivity.
Squirt allows you to quickly change your ip address and all the other stuff that goes with it.
You can also change between static and dynamic ip addresses plus save the IP addresses for fast recall later.
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