[email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
