[Swansea Hackspace] New Member and project Question

[Ceri Clatworthy]

What have you in mind for the screens,
are you thinking of 4 PC like monitors,

because, just driving 4 (additional) monitors from a laptop could be very
expensive !!

or something a little more basic, may be not as good as  a Nintendo DS /
Sony PlayStation Portable screen

perhaps 280*320 pixels (lots of flavors available from china)


If you only need to faid the back-light up/down, - giving appearance of
screen on/off,
Then that is potentially VERY simple.

As always,
More Info,
More Help :)

Ceri

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Debi Withers <debiwithers at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> Hello there,
>
>
>
> I am a new member to this list and am considering joining the Swansea
> Hackspace fir 6 months next year to realise a project.
>
> I am writing initially here to get some advice and some indication of how
> difficult it would be.
>
> So here is the project:
>
> I want to make a 'transmission machine' which can simultaneously play back
> up to 8 channels of digitised media - video, images and audio.
>
> Ideally the levels will be controlled by an external device, like a mixing
> desk/ interface, because it is important that people using the machine have
> the physical experience of controlling the levels - i.e., how loud the
> audio can played, the clarity of the image. The selections of the digitised
> files will be made via a laptop.
>
> Attached to the 8 outputs will be four screens and 1-4 speakers - although
> all the audio channels will probably be played through one speaker - so
> comparable to a live mix which plays back multiple audio channels.
>
> The one complicated thing perhaps is ideally to separate the audio and
> moving image of the video file so that the audio and image levels can be
> controlled separately, i.e., turn down the sound but still play the image;
> turn down the image, still hear the sound.
>
> I've asked a friend of mine who seems to think this would be possible
> through Arduino, but I wanted to check in with a local hackspace for advice
> to flesh out the idea.
>
> I've attached a diagram if this helps to explain the idea better.
>
> I live in Drefach Felindre but could travel to Swansea to work on the
> circuit if people could help me. I don't quite have the technical expertise
> to manage it myself!
>
> I see there is a workshop on 8 Jan but sadly I cannot make this date...
>
> Many many thanks in advance for your help -
>
> debi
>
>
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