recording video

Ron K. Jeffries rjeffries at gmail.com
Tue May 3 02:06:25 EDT 2011


Jon

I certainly understand that. I was interested in whether the
client/prospective customer had stated a requirement that
the hardware be copyleft. You have answered my question.
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Ron K. Jeffries






On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 21:59, jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> I sell copyleft hardware buddy. Come on man.
>
> jon at fabricatorz.com
> http://fabricatorz.com
>
> On May 2, 2011 6:27 PM, "Ron K. Jeffries" <rjeffries at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> Does the customer require open hardware?
>> If so, can you comment on why?
>> ---
>> Ron K. Jeffries
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>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 17:16, jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>> All good. I think a solution in the 5 to 10k usd range is what they are
>>> thinking. Andthat is 5 to 10 portable units.
>>>
>>> jon at fabricatorz.com
>>> http://fabricatorz.com
>>>
>>> On May 2, 2011 7:12 PM, "Werner Almesberger" <werner at almesberger.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> jon at rejon.org wrote:
>>>>> How likely would it be to get nanonote to record and compress video?
>>>>
>>>> For then Ben, that would be tricky. If you're thinking of using
>>>> something like one of those phone-cam parts, you may be able to
>>>> hack a camera interface via UBB, but at least with a bit more
>>>> difficulties than my VGA hack. (E.g., they usually have a
>>>> parallel bus for the pixel data and a serial bus for
>>>> configuration, so you'd either need additional connections to
>>>> the Ben or some means to multiplex what comes out of UBB.)
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about the openness of the SDIO cameras you can find
>>>> on the market.
>>>>
>>>> I also have my doubts about the Ben's ability to do meaningful
>>>> compression on its own. (Be careful what you ask for, though - a
>>>> bit of denoising and RLE ought to be quite feasible ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> Also, could one use both a UBB-WPAN and a UBB-VGA and/or some future
>>>>> UBB-WEBCAM at the same time?
>>>>
>>>> Alas, the Ben has only one 8:10 card slot. So you can have as
>>>> many fancy peripherals as you can carry, but use only one at a
>>>> time. (Well, unless some of them are _really_ fancy and have a
>>>> use even when disconnected. E.g., I suppose UBB could make a
>>>> decent enough toothpick ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> How far can we push this guy? If not this, what about milkymist?
>>>>
>>>> Milkymist plays in an entirely different league when it comes to
>>>> peripherals and processing power ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> Also, what about ruggedizing either the nanonote and/or milkymist for
>>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> To ruggedize the Nanonote, it would be really useful to "own"
>>>> the mechanical design. We don't have that yet.
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I'm shooting really high on this question, but have some very
>>>>> serious clients in the wings.
>>>>
>>>> If they would be interested in financing the development of a
>>>> Ben successor, that would of course allow for the removal of
>>>> most of the restrictions I've listed above ;-)
>>>>
>>>> - Werner
>>>>
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