Chris, Has there been any further development on MH Spot that you could share with the community? I am interested to hear if you have deployed any in the classrooms and the feedback you are receiving.
Thanks, Andy ************* Andy Wasklewicz Entwine - Knowledge In Motion www.entwinemedia.com @entwinemedia on Twitter On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > It depends a lot on the effect that you're interested in > achieving. One of the reasons that we picked this array is that they > can be hooked up into larger sized panels. See > http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Rainbowduino_LED_driver_platform_-_Atmega_328 > for details. > > We intentionally went out and added the ethernet shield so that it > doesn't have to be located by the capture agent - the capture agent can > push updates to it wherever it is as long as there is network > connection. A side effect of this is that you can broadcast to multiple > LED matrixes, so you could place them in different parts of the > classroom if you wanted to. Also, if vendors were interested in piggy > backing off of this (or commercializing it), there is lots of > opportunity there, it doesn't have to be specific to the reference > agent. > > Regards, > > Chris > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:07:31 +0000 > "Schulte Olaf A." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nice work, I like the deskcast. Could you indicate what alternative >> displays one could hook to that setting? You mentioned the "On air" >> display, maybe you came across something more similar to that. The >> LED seems a little to small given the CA plus infrastructure will be >> at the far end of the room in some situations. >> >> O >> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: [email protected] [mailto:matterhorn- >>> [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Christopher Brooks >>> Gesendet: Montag, 20. August 2012 18:25 >>> An: [email protected] >>> Betreff: [Opencast Matterhorn] Matterhorn "Spot" >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> We have had a couple of summer students over the years considering >>> how we might solve the audio "on air" issue. Just to recall, it >>> would be nice to have some confidence monitoring that let students >>> and the instructor know that the recording was happening and audio >>> levels were ok without having to log into a full web interface/etc. >>> The thought was that an "on air" light from radio/tv broadcast would >>> work well, even better if it pulsed with the rhythm of the speaker, >>> giving direct feedback that audio was being captured. >>> >>> Matterhorn Spot is our take on this. It uses an Arduino board to >>> run an LED matrix. gstreamer appsinks are used to collect audio >>> data, which is then sent via the network to the arduino to process. >>> It's fairly simple, and the materials to build it cost around $100, >>> but some could be cut out now that we have a prototype. >>> >>> A full set of source code for this is now in contrib/spot. It's all >>> ECL licensed so you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. >>> We would love to hear some feedback as to whether this seems like a >>> promising direction to go, I'm hoping we can sneak it out for >>> testing this fall. >>> >>> Here's the URL to the svn repo: >>> https://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/contrib/spot/ >>> >>> And here's a video demonstrating it: >>> https://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/contrib/spot/overview.m4v >>> >>> (we still need an enclosure btw, the plywood box isn't as hot as I >>> had hoped ;) ) >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> -- >>> Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc >>> ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan >>> >>> Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 >>> Phone: 1.306.966.1442 >>> Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory >>> Department of Computer Science >>> University of Saskatchewan >>> 176 Thorvaldson Building >>> 110 Science Place >>> Saskatoon, SK >>> S7N 5C9 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matterhorn mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe please email >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matterhorn mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >> >> >> To unsubscribe please email >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ > > > > -- > Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc > ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan > > Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 > Phone: 1.306.966.1442 > Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory > Department of Computer Science > University of Saskatchewan > 176 Thorvaldson Building > 110 Science Place > Saskatoon, SK > S7N 5C9 > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
