I talked a bit last month about my woes trying to use a Rosco iCue “intelligent mirror.” The short version: skip the lighting board and the lighting op / designer, and do what Jamie Jewett suggests here, via comments:
I am also using a hacked I-cue with projection and am quite happy with it –
for folks interested in DMX you might also look into the LANbox products – depending on what product you get you can send it DMX, MIDI, USB, ethernet as well as digital and analog sensor data – it’s pretty sweet – it also comes with a piece of free (download-able) software which functions as a light desk on your laptop…
It also has preprogrammed objects for connecting directly to both the Max/MSP/Jitter world (which I am using) and to Isadora (which I have used and would recommend highly – the learning cure is no where near as steep as with jitter…)
my main issue with the I-cue has to do with the difference between the x and y range and the transation between the ‘Cartesian’ world of my 2d desktop and the quasi 3d/polar world of the I-cue – I am finding moving video in a straight line to be quite a pain in the back side…
but between the I-cue and the Lanbox there has been no issues at all…
Sounds like someone needs to build a patch that translates to the iCue … maybe even via joystick input.