WhiteCat Lighting Board is a free lighting desk for windows developped by Christoph Guillermet.
It can do a lot of stuff of course as lighting desk,artnet and dmx interfaces, cue, chanel macro, patch, xy mover and trichromie(not totally usefull actuely for motor lighting), etc...
But he has a lot of strange or useful other fonctions who make it able to be used for something else than linghting.
It can play sound, controle Arduino and Arduino HF prototype for electronique developpement, has a little video tracking module, an echo (sort of gravity and physical fonction of control), a draw module (to draw directly the light), a plot module to draw your light plot directly in whitecat and in sync with the soft, and a remote for iphone and ipad thrue iFantastick soft.
-At http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr/whitecat/dokuwiki/doku.php you can find in the wiki a very completed doc on the wiki page, a more short doc in english doc is also available on this page -on the wesite of whitecat, http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr, the forum is very useful, and there is some vidéo tutorials -can download the last beta release at http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr/release or from the main page, just uncompress the zip at C:/ and enjoy.
White Cat is free software developped originaly by Cristoph Guillermet: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.
White Cat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with White Cat. If not, seehttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
In windows : -Follow the PREBUILD_INSTALL_WITH_CODEBLOCKS_AND_MINGW4.8.1.txt or the PREBUILD_INSTALL_With_DEV_C++_AND_MINGW4.8.1.txt
- if you want build yourself the libraries for an other plateform or compilator than MinGW4.8.1, you can get inspiration from the BUILD_LIBRARIES_INSTRUCTIONS_for_MinGW.txt
You can find a short doc genereted by doxygen in the API. If you code an contribute to the whitecat project, please continue to comment your code with the doxigen format, for the others. If you are french a tutorial for doxygen and whitecat can be found at http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr/whitecat/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation_doxygen
Sources to to build whitecat as crossplateform with: For crossplateform: Allegro 4.4.2 modified, opencv 2.4.8, Openlayer 2.1 modified, Audiere1.9.4, MidiShare1.9.1, libharu2.0.8
For windows: -CSerial (for the arduino communication) -dashard (sunlight dmx interface) -opendmx -enttec usb pro
For OSX, Debian, unix and linux POSIX systeme (must be developed):
- Audiere 1.9.5
- libserial 0.5.2 (to replace Cserial in system non windows)
The libs sources can be cloned from the whitecatlib repository at https://github.com/ChristophGuillermet/whitecatlib The builds of whitecat from the whitecatbuild repository at https://github.com/ChristophGuillermet/whitecatbuild
If you are french, for how to use git a tuto is at http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr/whitecat/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=recettes_pour_git
This two folder must cloned or copy inside the whitecat_crossplateform folders but you may find some lighter Prebuilds for this two repository for your environement and DEVKIT at : http://www.le-chat-noir-numerique.fr/coding/