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sfsuphysics · 07/30/2013, 03:21 PM

I really need to read up on how to program these things, it seems like a fairly straight forward type of programming language. As it stands I'm not a big fan of what the Typhoon does, don't get me wrong, it works great for a controller. But one thing I'd like to do is to perhaps put the lighting cycles into the code, because honestly how often are you going to reprogram the timing? Then change the menu options to do something like "only channel 1 on" "only channel 2 on" etc, as that's the only real time I'd want to fiddle with it is to show off to people various colors over the tank to highlight different fluorescent patterns and what not.

07/30/2013, 03:21 PM	#1184
sfsuphysics Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: San Francisco Posts: 9,103	I really need to read up on how to program these things, it seems like a fairly straight forward type of programming language. As it stands I'm not a big fan of what the Typhoon does, don't get me wrong, it works great for a controller. But one thing I'd like to do is to perhaps put the lighting cycles into the code, because honestly how often are you going to reprogram the timing? Then change the menu options to do something like "only channel 1 on" "only channel 2 on" etc, as that's the only real time I'd want to fiddle with it is to show off to people various colors over the tank to highlight different fluorescent patterns and what not. __________________ Mike