[Swansea Hackspace] New Member and project Question

[Ceri Clatworthy]

If you could cope with a slideshow (cartoon like graphics)

then 2344115
<http://uk.farnell.com/mikroelektronika/mikroe-1429/ft800-connect-eve-add-on-board/dp/2344115>
from
Farnell,

http://www.ftdichip.com/EVE.htm

at £53, each, not the cheapest solution, but amazingly modular.
Keeping your code over head very low.

Also it can (if i remember correctly) play wav files, and do graphs charts
etc.

additionally for £26, there is VM800C43A-N
<http://uk.farnell.com/ftdi/vm800c43a-n/ft800-eve-module-fpc-ffc-40-lcd/dp/2355186>
,
But you will need a PSP screen (or comparable)

One of our other members has used an Ardweeno version, intended for
creating 80's style video game consoles.

Ceri

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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