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This is pretty great. For my larger LED projects (3000+ lights) I'm slowly moving over to something like TouchDesigner for animations and mapping, but for medium and smaller projects this is fantastic. Will be buying some!

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we've had really great results with TD tops into madmapper (via syphon/spout) on some installs 6000+ too.

Yea, some combination of that for projection mapping, and perhaps sending directly out to Artnet/sACN for LEDs, servos and lasers? Still trying to piece it together as things get bigger and bigger.

My contact information is in my profile. Can you reach out? I'd love to see some of the stuff you're doing and ask a question or two.

on jobs we use pixlite controllers for controlling lots of addressables and send it artnet out of touchdesigner. no need to involve madmapper as touchdesigner handles all the mapping you could possibly want without adding the latency of piping out to madmapper. if you're just doing hobby projects you can stream serial out of touch via USB to a teensy 3.2 and control (in my experience) around 4000 LEDs at ~60fps. for lasers you should check out the etherdream, simple and works well. servo control you'll need a board but generating the software side in touchdesigner is simple.

I've got a Pixelpusher laying around that in theory drive servos, but I haven't tried it yet. Thanks for the advice!!!

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