G'day SANE folks, I'm nearly finished with the 2nd version of an underwater environmental monitoring device which has grown out of my PhD research. I built a previous version using Windows, but found proprietary problems interfered with field use and custom user (student) development. In cooperation with my makerspace friends (project info http://dspace.org.nz/2012/04/14/sediment-profile-imaging-spi-scan-project/) we are making the electronic systems (Arduino based) and software open to reciprocate the benefits we've received from the open-source community. The system relies on a modified flatbed scanner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment_Profile_Imagery). Our new system is based on the Canoscan LiDE700F for a bunch of mechanical reasons and we desperately need a driver to operate it from a Raspberry Pi (typically a Fedora distro, but others possible).
I've used SnoopyPro 0.22 to log the USB packets while restarting the device, previewing the platen, scanning in colour of a 216.0x280.4 mm area, then a grey-scale scan. I'll put it in the SANEDriverDevelopment folder of our github repo, (DspaceSPI/SPIScan.git) This is primarily a research programme, but there is some market (still open though) potential if I can provide and incentives to a driver-developers. Can you help me locate interested people? I"m happy to put in whatever grunt work I can, but driver development is new to me. Cheers, Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Paavo, PhD Benthic Science Limited 595 Brighton Road Westwood, Dunedin New Zealand 9035 http://www.benthicscience.com/ Telephone/Fax +64-03-481-7899 ......................................................
