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electronics - USB interface for parallel LCD

Monday, February 05 2007 @ 11:53 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,653

USB interface for parallel LCD's, uses an AVR tiny2313 microcontroller and a FTDI usb chip. LCD2USB is another solution, it uses an Atmel AVR Mega8 microcontroller and a software usb solution.

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idea - MIDI support work for FreeBSD?

Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 22:01 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Perhaps I should get a cheap MIDI controller and some other MIDI hardware, and try to improve FreeBSD support for MIDI? riff.no have cheap MIDI keyboards, like the Korg K25.

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Testing KnoppMyth

Sunday, September 18 2005 @ 23:11 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,129

Jeg tester KnoppMyth R5A16 for å se om den er brukandes. Ressurser: MythTV, MythTV Wiki, KnoppMythWiki, Debian, LinuxTV.org, V4L Wiki, Clever Tricks with MythTV, The PVR Guide,
Hardware:

CPU: intel Celeron @ 400 Mhz
Memory: 256 MB PC100 (1 DIMM, 1 ledig plass)
- var: 128 MB RAM (2 DIMMer, ingen ledige plasser)
disk: nok
lydkort: Creative Soundblaster Vibra16C (isa) PnP
skjermkort: nVidia GeForce2 MX / MX400 (NV11)
TV kort: Hauppauge PVR-500MCE (hardware MPEG encoder)
- var: Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM (model 747)

Aktiviteter:

install KnoppMyth - ok
WinTV PCI-FM: configure TV card - still problems with the cx88 driver and my TV card (Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM model 747).
PVR-500: card needs a newer version of ivtv (the driver). Downloaded, configured and installed. Works
set up sound card - ok
enable ntp - ok
configure MythTV
- the PVR-500 needs to be set up as a MPEG-2 card (aka PVR-250 / PVR-350 in MythTV)
- XvMC hardware decoding had to be turned off to enable playback
secure Mythweb - ok

Tester:

test: kan man se TV?
- WinTV PCI-FM: test av TV med xawtv - testet, farger er feil (blåskjær)
- PVR-500: test av TV med ptune-ui.pl og mplayer /dev/video0 - bilde og lyd ok, det går an å bytte kanaler.
test av "Live TV"
- WinTV PCI-FM: - testet, maskinen er ikke rask nok
- PVR-500:
test av opptak (recording)
- WinTV PCI-FM: test av opptak - testet - virker
- PVR-500: test av opptak - testet - virker.

Mer testing gjenstår.

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FreeBSD on Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D

Wednesday, October 13 2004 @ 19:09 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,941

I have aquired a couple of Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D machines, with keyboard and mouse. I will try to make at least one of them work, and install FreeBSD/sparc64 on it. Things i need:

a monitor adapter, from the Sun-monitor-type plug to "normal type" VGA (15 pin) connector
- 13W3 to VGA adapter aquired; bought from a net shop.
disks with SCA 80-pins connector. Luckily, I already have a spud bracket.
- Drive aquired. I found a 36GB SCA drive fairly cheap.

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idea - Digital Radio

Saturday, July 31 2004 @ 18:46 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,291

Idea: create a (software controlled) digital radio. Several projects exists, like GNU Radio. DRM - Digital Radio Mondiale and the DRM Software Radio (Windows) , DREAM and more.

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FreeBSD and DVD ripping

Tuesday, April 20 2004 @ 23:42 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,200

First you have Aeonflux's Guide to DVD ripping under FreeBSD. Next there is dvdrip from the ports collection. My favorite is ripmake, which is "a fully automatic command line ripping makefile generator for transcode". Examples for ripmake:
ripmake -C 800 file.avi vcd convert file.avi into files ready for burning to cd's. Assume a cd size of 800MB.
Other options for ripmake are:
-n pal convert output to PAL format
-f af6 force input video codec to be af6 (avifile). Other codecs are ffmpeg, mov (quicktime), divx, xvid and mplayer. Useful if for some reason ripmake fails to detect the proper input codecs.

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Digital Picture frame

Monday, January 05 2004 @ 17:25 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,667

Build a digital picture frame. Turn an old laptop into a nice frame for showing digital pictures. If it has a cd rom, have it read pictures from there, if not have it read them from a central server. Option one: pictures are prescaled to correct resolution (ie. 800x600), option two: the frame uses ImageMagick or somesuch to rescale pictures before displaying them. Graphics environments: SVGALib, Xfree86, PicoGUI, Microwindows and NanoGUI, or twin (probably to specialized to work good enough).

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Networked music player

Monday, January 05 2004 @ 16:30 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,274

Build a networked music player. It will be wired or wireless, fetch music from a central server, and play mp3, ogg, and other formats. Commercial examples are many: Tutle Beach's AudioTron, BAR[IX] Exstreamer or Exstreamer Digital, Squeezebox or SLIMP3 from Slim Devices, the Rio Digital Audio Receiver, and others.

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Home Automation

Monday, January 05 2004 @ 15:49 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 1,663

Now that X-10 equipment is available here (see Framtidshuset, SmartHus and others) it would be nice to build some automation into the house. AutomatedHome (UK) has a few good articles. Also take a look at The xPL Project, and xPLHal. There is also Project LinuxGURU

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HTPC with FreeBSD

Sunday, January 04 2004 @ 02:53 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 4,717

This project will show my efforts to build a Home Theater PC (or HTPC for short) with FreeBSD. The goal is to have the necessary hardware and software into this machine so that I can

watch and record TV
listen to radio channels
play DVDs
play digital video (many formats)
play digital music (mp3, ogg, etc.)
control it with a remote control

It will be network connected. Nice extras will be the ability to show pictures from the hard drive or a card reader.

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