===Animation Architectures===

Standalone Microcontrollers



Master Microcontroller driving slave Microcontrollers



PC driving a microcontroller

PC driving a commercial controller

PC driving a network, which communicated with microcontrollers

PC driving a network, which communicates with commercial controllers


Networks can be:

Ethernet/Wifi
DMX

Layer 2/3 protocols include:

TCP/IP
UDP

Layer 4+ protocols include:

DMX
MQTT
ArtNet
SACN