Comments on: Adaptive ambient light for movies

By: pennywise

pennywise — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:25:17 +0000

Also was looking to build this, but then found some interesting on google.

A Dutch company is selling this sort of product for quite some time now. Their products claims to work with all games and applications.

They also seem to have some nifty new adons that even look more cool. The site mentions artficial scene recognition that "reads" fire heat and smoke, which than can be send as effect to your own hardware..
i.e. heaters and smoke machines!

real interesting..
They even seem to offer a free SDK, will download and take a peek ;)

By: ex-parrot

ex-parrot — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:50:57 +0000

Here’s an idea: VLC can take a stream direct from a capture source, apply DirectShow filters to it and spit it back out again… could be useful.

By: rmiller021

rmiller021 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:24:04 +0000

19> YES! if you are running windows and your DVR program supports his filter.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:53:09 +0000

Could you use this on a DIY DVR for you flatscreen?

By: Dre

Dre — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:40:36 +0000

I’ve been looking all over the net for a project like that, i just wish it could be hooked straight to a video source…. Is anybody out there with some knowledge capable to modify it to accept a raw video input??? It would LOOK beautifu behind my living room 37 inches plasma…. ;) anybody???

By: g0d

g0d — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:26:43 +0000

Spud’s gave me an interesting idea.. having ambient light in your house set up to be tempreture sensitive.. so if you turned on the AC the light in the room would take a bluish tinge and if your were to say light the fireplace the room would take on an orange glow

but i’m sure this has been done

By: velocityphilosophy

velocityphilosophy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:59:56 +0000

This is what hackaday is all about. This is one of the sweetest ideas I’ve ever seen.

I could be wrong, but it seems like CCFLs have a more ambient cast to them and they avoid any break or areas where the led light doesnt overlap.
Also i think a translucent piece on the viewer’s side that would let it light up the front and still cast a light on the wall would help alot in the daytime

By: steve

steve — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:04:29 +0000

well here we go againe more light projects so sad there must be more to life come on u lardey arss yankees get ur fingers out give me some good projects

By: jim

jim — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:44:03 +0000

high fives all round for leds, am i right?

By: antiwhack

antiwhack — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:39:34 +0000

hackaday down for maintenance last night?

By: greg

greg — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:51:53 +0000

How about 5-wire rope light?
http://actionlighting.com/item-detail.asp?ID=680&MainCategory=Rope%20Light&Sub=5%20Wire%20Rope
It works with 120 volts, so I guess you could somehow wire the hot of the electrical line so the pc board is like a switch

By: rafael vuijk

rafael vuijk — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:42:50 +0000

I still have 6 RGB LED bars in my room that I need to make a PCB for. I was looking for such directshow filter before but found none. Thanks.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:51:04 +0000

This is cool but would be so much better for dell xps users if they can get it to use the RGB led’s already built in to the putar. hmmmmm

By: mastershake916

mastershake916 — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:43:06 +0000

This is awesome, I thought of this a while ago but never did anything.

By: Tom Parker

Tom Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:00:48 +0000

I thought at first that would be annoying but from the video it looks pretty cool too bad i couldnt have that on my normal tv :(