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Stagekit

Stagekit is a 3D-printable, completely hand-solderable diy lighting previs kit.

It consists of various fixtures, truss elements, and set dressing pieces, all modelled at a fairly accurate 1:10 scale. The truss pieces are modelled after standard Eurotruss, and the lights after various fixtures, but due to design requirements, sizing and design liberties have had to be taken.

The inspiration for the design was really just the limited visualisation tools available for hobbyist lighting designers. There's certainly a lot of software, but much of it is prohibitively expensive, especially for students, then of course, comes the question of having software that can actually output to it. Guess what, you have to pay for that too.

Fixtures

Currently, Stagekit has 3 fixture designs available, but more designs are coming in the future.

The RGB Blinder and RGB Tube both utilize neopixels, and the RGB Par uses a RGB Led. All fixtures use an ATTiny85 acting as an i2c slave, controlled by a RPi Zero 2 W or other i2c capable controller. The controller acts as an art net node, and sends i2c over 4 wire Molex Picoblade connectors, daisy chained together akin to DMX.

Truss Pieces

There are currently four main truss pieces available, with more options in the future again. All parts should be easily printable, and there are versions of each file which should be able to be printed without supports.

Truss piece straight - 100mm

Truss piece corner

Truss base piece

Truss connector bracket

Set elements

There are a variety of set pieces available. Ashdown ABM-600 EVO IV:

Ampeg Classic 8x10 Cab:

Fender Rumble 100:

Markbass 1x15 cab:

Generic 4x10 cab:

Generic Roadcase:

Generic Wedge Monitor:

Generic Subwoofer:

Generic Line Array: Note: scale should be checked before printing, while this is to scale, it is very large

Generic Fence:

Stage platform 1x1:

Stage platform 1x2:

Stage platform 2x2:

Stage stairs:

Finally, an example miniature stage mockup:

Firmware

To program the ATTiny85 chips, you will need either a dedicated programmer or an Arduino Uno or similar. The source code for all of the lights can be found in the firmware directory.

Unfortunately, due to size and budget limitations, light addresses must be hardcoded into each chip individually. This means that when flashing firmware, ensure each light has a different address assigned, by editing the .ino file and changing the value of I2C_SLAVE_ADDRESS to any unused value between 0x01 and 0x7F before programming.

PCB Source files can be found in the respective folder (Blinder, RGB Par, RGB Tube) and all 3D models can be found inside the cad folder.

PCB Pictures for Highway

RGB Par:

RGB Tube:

Blinder:

BOM

Better formatted BOM's are also available at this google sheet.

RGB PAR

RGB Tube

RGB Blinder

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