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+# libdimmer
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+This was something I had in my archives from college; I thought it
+would be interesting if theaters could, instead of buying an expensive
+lighting board, just hook their lighting system up to a retail
+PC to control it.
+
+My friend Greg and I poked at this for a bit. This project was to
+deal with driving the hardware and [a separate app](https://github.com/icculus/daddymax)
+was to be the front end.
+
+We never got far on this project, at the time I didn't have access to
+any sort of DMX hardware I could drive from a PC, and if I were to
+look through these files, I'm sure we overengineered this into surrender
+almost immediately.
+
+That being said, a simple Google search will show that other people also
+thought the _concept_ was good, and you can see that commercial products to
+drive DMX systems via a PC exist in the world now, and that's good enough
+for me, honestly.
+
+So this is just for the history books, it isn't much, and I don't
+expect I'll be looking at this further.
+
+--ryan (icculus@icculus.org).
+