On 1/23/07, Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> I've been thinking about turning a Linksys WRTSL54GS into a
Dave> video phone.
Dave> Wanna help?
Dave> Basically, I would load OpenWRT on it, hook up a USB sound
Dave> card, USB camera and USB flash. Install Asterisk and use the
Dave> console (or I guess a GUI-less softphone) for audio IO.
It sounds rather difficult to me.
It doesn't really have the CPU to decode an mpeg stream and put it
on a screen, or encode a video stream into mpeg.
Ya, I didn't really think it through very well. Perhaps it was more
fantasizing than planning. I agree that it couldn't display it on a
screen. I wondered if it was possible to just stream it off to a
remote client for the heavier processing.
Dave> Think about the cool things you could do with that platform:
Dave> 1) A rolling phone with a literal 'follow-me' feature. You
Dave> could put a particular coloured patch on yourself and have it
Dave> follow you optically (lots of work) or you could walk around
Dave> with a wistle of a particular frequency and have the system
Dave> turn based on the relative strength of the sound in the left
Dave> and right (and maybe a couple other) microphones.
huh? how does that follow? from a 54gs?
I was thinking that if you hooked up the WRTSL54GS and used it's
serial port for audio, you could analyze the relative strength of the
whistle frequency in different channels to make direction changes and
head in the direction of the whistle. (again, unrestricted
brainstorming)
I was reading some of the hacks that people have made to these WRT
type boxes and it's amazing what they're doing.
