🚨 LED Beacon 🚨

Upgrading cheap LED beacons for professional DMX/Art-Net stage control.

🚀 Manufacturing Status

• Design: Completed
• Prototyping: In Progress
• Production: Pending

📋 Quick Specs

• Power: +12V ±30% @ 2A
• LEDS: 10x strings of 6 LEDs
• MCU: ESP32-C3-WROOM-02
• Connectivity: DMX512 via 5 pin XLRs and WiFi

📂 Project Structure

• /hardware: KiCAD project files (Version 9.0.7).
• /firmware: PlatformIO project (Arduino/ESP-IDF framework).
• /mechanical: 3D-printable housing (.STEP).
• /docs: Specification, schematics and design calculations.

🛠 Setup & Development

Hardware

• Library Dependencies: All footprints/symbols are [local to the repo / use standard KiCAD libs].
• CI/CD: Schematics are automatically exported to /docs on every push.

Firmware

1. Open the /firmware folder in VS Code.
2. Ensure the PlatformIO extension is installed.
3. Connect your hardware via USB C port and click Upload.

📝 User Guide

1. Apply power via DC connector, 12V ±30% from a 3A capable supply.
2. Attach to DMX chain with 2x XLR 5pin cables
   • If at the end of the bus use a terminator plug
3. Select a DMX address with the DIP switch
   • This light consumes 20 slots so avoid address above 492.
   • Ensure that this light is >20 slots away from the next lights.
4. Disable the WiFi AP with the DIP switch unless needed for diagnostics
5. Use your DMX controller to send packets on the DMX chain.
   • Slots 1 to 10 control the brightness per channel
     • 0x00 is off
     • 0xFF is on
   • Slots 11 to 20 control the strobe effect per channel
     • 0x00 is fully on
     • 0x01 strobes at 0.2Hz
     • 0xFF strobes at 20Hz
6. Enjoy!

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Commissioned for Null Sector for EMF Camp 2026.