Artistic Licence Engineering at PLASA Show's Skills Wednesday Artistic Licence Engineering's training seminar "DMX and RDM Protocols - An Overview" was presented to a packed room as part of the PLASA Education and Training Program on 'Skills Wednesday, September 14. Delegates were treated to a humorous but well-informed and interactive three hours by Artistic Licence Engineering's R&D manager, Tim Baarsch. During this time, they were taken step-by-step through the protocol communications, providing them with a solid basis from which to use DMX and RDM with confidence. Attended by a broad spectrum of designers, technicians, and architects, the session covered the history and workings of DMX and RDM, with liberal input from delegates who were free to ask questions throughout. The talks were interspersed with a number of mini workshops led by Baarsch, Sachira Withanage, and Ptarmigan Integration's Mike Clingman. These allowed delegates to experiment with the protocols and put the theories just learnt into practice. The group work also allowed sharing of ideas and gave delegates the opportunity to help and learn from each other. "We had a wide range of knowledge levels and different end requirements within the group," says one attendee, Christy Rock, a freelance technician from Ireland. "We are all dealing with complicated systems and are self-educated to a certain level to enable us to achieve what we want. However, the information, practical exercises and exchange of ideas from the seminar gave us the opportunity to learn beyond what we already know: to implement devices, identify problems and generally demystify the workings of DMX and RDM." Artistic Licence Engineering is dedicated to educating the industry in the use of the technologies that it helped pioneer, and was very pleased with the turnout and the positive response to the PLASA seminar. "The delegates who attended the course had a wide variety of backgrounds and nationalities, suggesting that our knowledge is in great demand," says Artistic Licence Engineering, managing director, Simon Hobday. "PLASA gave us the opportunity to share this knowledge with a much broader audience than our regular UK courses can attract - something we would be definitely looking to repeat." Those who wish to investigate further, or were unable to attend the seminar, can find in-depth information on DMX and RDM in Wayne Howell's book, Control Freak: A Real World Guide to DMX512 and Remote Device Management. The second edition of this can be obtained online. 
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