i second this post. get lots of memory and use a modest camera (say 2 mega pixels) that will store lots of pics in not a lot of room.
even if you can't trickle charge a laptop, as long as you can kick start your bike, you don't have to worry too much about using its battery for your electronics.
contact university film departments around the country. their students are always looking for projects. here is a link for my alma mater. http://www.wright.edu/academics/theatre/pr ograms/m otion_pictures1.html
if you want to just grab a vga (or higher resolution for that matter) frame and digitize it it is not too difficult and off the shelf solutions exist. coreco (www.imaging.com) makes several a2d boards that will do this, matrox may be able to help you also (i haven't done anything like this for a while so look around). if you need to grab sequences of frames then bandwidth becomes an issue and you either need to capture to ram for short sequences or you need a raid for larger sequences. good luck.
with an understanding of only the rudiments of python, you can do a lot pretty easily with the 'anydbm' module. there is nice get-you-started tutorial in the book 'programming python' by mark lutz.
it makes no sense to pay top dollar for state of the art hardware and then spend a year learning to use it. go get yourself 3 or 4 cheap pc's (i've seen piii 700mhz boxes for around $100) and experiment with them.
in the book cyborg by martin caidin (the book the $6e+6 man was based on) our hero had a camera for an eye instead of the spiffy telephoto ir one he had on tv. he had to pop it out to change the film. today he could just stick a usb cable in his eye. also the bionic woman's ear would have ogg playback capability.
i was once standing in a river holding onto an aluminum canoe near some high tension lines and i could definitely feel current when i touched the canoe and none when i let go
you may want to consider getting a parallel port cdrom drive (i believe there is or was one made by backpack) which would allow you to boot off a floppy and install (slowly) from the parallel port. another place to look for information is the rule project at http://www.rule-project.org/en/)
where they are trying to allow folks to Run Uptodate Linux Everywhere
actually, not watching _commercial_ tv is an accomplishment. i have seen and enjoyed farscape, my public library has the first season on video tape. what i don't see and don't enjoy is being programmed by madison avenue. the insidious (and sad) thing is that most people who have grown up with it just don't see it.
anyhow, methinks thou dost protest too much, surely you must suspect there must be something wromng with your video habits or why would you bother to post such a bileous missive?
i got an email from postmaster@bigfoot.com telling me i was over quota because of all the bounced messages flowing to my bigfoot account. i replied to it explaining the situation and it was bounced because the box was full. i am in the process of moving to other email addresses and i will put an autoresponder on my bigfoot account pointing them to a web page where my friends and family can send me a message and i will respond with my new email address.
exchange server with outlook client has alot of nifty features like automatic meeting scheduling, tasking etc. but you will only get these benefits if everyone in the company actually uses the software correctly. suppose i want to schedule a meeting with a dozen other coworkers and outlook looks at all their schedules and determines a time all are available. if any one of them does not use the scheduling features of outlook (you mean it does more than email?) then their schedule is completely open and the meeting may well be in conflict with their actual schedule.
training is not the solution either. we trained everyone in our organization, but for a large enough percentage of them it just dosen't sink in.
here is a suggestion:
identify the individuals who are agitating for exchange and put their department on it until they beg you to switch them back.
as an added bonus you won't have to heat your fraternity in the winter if you have a dozen or so indigos rendering;)
probably the best thing you can do with them is play bz (battle zone knockoff) over the network
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i second this post. get lots of memory and use a modest camera (say 2 mega pixels) that will store lots of pics in not a lot of room.
even if you can't trickle charge a laptop, as long as you can kick start your bike, you don't have to worry too much about using its battery for your electronics.
contact university film departments around the country. their students are always looking for projects. here is a link for my alma mater.r ograms/m otion_pictures1.html
http://www.wright.edu/academics/theatre/p
then i expect he'll change his tune
might it cost less than $80k to move the company to where the bandwidth you desire is available?
if you want to just grab a vga (or higher resolution for that matter) frame and digitize it it is not too difficult and off the shelf solutions exist. coreco (www.imaging.com) makes several a2d boards that will do this, matrox may be able to help you also (i haven't done anything like this for a while so look around). if you need to grab sequences of frames then bandwidth becomes an issue and you either need to capture to ram for short sequences or you need a raid for larger sequences. good luck.
with an understanding of only the rudiments of python, you can do a lot pretty easily with the 'anydbm' module. there is nice get-you-started tutorial in the book 'programming python' by mark lutz.
it makes no sense to pay top dollar for state of the art hardware and then spend a year learning to use it. go get yourself 3 or 4 cheap pc's (i've seen piii 700mhz boxes for around $100) and experiment with them.
just build your device with a bank of dip switches to let the user pick a usb id. anything that is not already on the chain should be ok.
i hope this means i will soon be able to play bzflag (www.bzflag.org) on my cell phone ;)
ya know, like in the film brazil
go to ebay and buy a giant old workstation monitor that is for sale in your area that you won't have to pay shipping for.
always, always, really always carry a clean handkerchief.
in the book cyborg by martin caidin (the book the $6e+6 man was based on) our hero had a camera for an eye instead of the spiffy telephoto ir one he had on tv. he had to pop it out to change the film. today he could just stick a usb cable in his eye. also the bionic woman's ear would have ogg playback capability.
i was once standing in a river holding onto an aluminum canoe near some high tension lines and i could definitely feel current when i touched the canoe and none when i let go
why would folks want to read the actual article before commenting on it?
you may want to consider getting a parallel port cdrom drive (i believe there is or was one made by backpack) which would allow you to boot off a floppy and install (slowly) from the parallel port. another place to look for information is the rule project at
http://www.rule-project.org/en/)
where they are trying to allow folks to Run Uptodate Linux Everywhere
stop the presses!
actually, not watching _commercial_ tv is an accomplishment. i have seen and enjoyed farscape, my public library has the first season on video tape. what i don't see and don't enjoy is being programmed by madison avenue. the insidious (and sad) thing is that most people who have grown up with it just don't see it.
anyhow, methinks thou dost protest too much, surely you must suspect there must be something wromng with your video habits or why would you bother to post such a bileous missive?
i got an email from postmaster@bigfoot.com telling me i was over quota because of all the bounced messages flowing to my bigfoot account. i replied to it explaining the situation and it was bounced because the box was full. i am in the process of moving to other email addresses and i will put an autoresponder on my bigfoot account pointing them to a web page where my friends and family can send me a message and i will respond with my new email address.
exchange server with outlook client has alot of nifty features like automatic meeting scheduling, tasking etc. but you will only get these benefits if everyone in the company actually uses the software correctly. suppose i want to schedule a meeting with a dozen other coworkers and outlook looks at all their schedules and determines a time all are available. if any one of them does not use the scheduling features of outlook (you mean it does more than email?) then their schedule is completely open and the meeting may well be in conflict with their actual schedule. training is not the solution either. we trained everyone in our organization, but for a large enough percentage of them it just dosen't sink in. here is a suggestion: identify the individuals who are agitating for exchange and put their department on it until they beg you to switch them back.
as an added bonus you won't have to heat your fraternity in the winter if you have a dozen or so indigos rendering ;)
probably the best thing you can do with them is play bz (battle zone knockoff) over the network