(cut) >The largest problem is that we don't provide a turn-key solution. >(That is true in general). Most of these people aren't capable of >installing & configuring Linux. I think we should make it work first and then worry about the user base :-) If I'm my only user base and it works, it's fine by me. Of course, it could say something about the usefulness of the system ;) So, yes it would be cool if a lot of people could/would use it in the end.
>I think the patent won't be a big problem, provided it's not >too broad (as always i suppose). There are many ways of implementing >this. I'm pretty sure a workaround can be found. I'm fairly optimistic too, for the time being. I'll start on it after the exams and see how far it gets :) >The linux-friendly soundcard is still wandering around in my head... :-) >I would like to assist, but for now, I can't promise anything. >I'm pretty much a hardware guy... don't get me wrong, I like >coding. But I like HW design more. >So the first thing I'm going to do, is some research on the feasability >of the soundcard... I'm very interested in this stuff too. I'm seeing it more as a programmable DSP card, on which you can load your own programmed effects, which would be otherwise hard to achieve in realtime. But you see it a lot larger I guess, I'm just not so much into hardware design (as in I don't know enough about it to be able to suggest using some protocol over firewire to interface with a custom DSP, which kind of A/D D/A to use etc. ...) >I'm currently getting my energy from planning what I'll do when the exams >are over... Same here :) Looks like I've already some cool projects on the list... Now only to find the time to do all this stuff ... best regards vini
