About: I am creating interactive installations and performances. Inviting the spectator to participate in various ways I use any media possible to bring "the idea" to life. Electronics, computers, wood, rope, water…

The Electric Imp is a fantastic little wifi-enabled microcontroller. It is basically like having an Arduino, a WiFi-shield and a Cloud-service in one package.

You don't get as much full processor control as on the Arduino, though, because the Cortex M3 are doing all kind of things behind the scenes to keep the WiFi and cloud connection up and happy.

Because of that, it was impossible to use protocols like DMX. But from firmware 30 around October 2014 the issues preventing DMX to be used have been resolved, and now it is possible.

The good guys at Electric Imp have done a nice example of how to send DMX, and I thought it would be nice to pack it up in a full example with some hardware too.

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