[gijs] sent in an Arduino video sampler he’s been working on. The sampler is able to capture, pause and play a short video forwards and backwards.
The video capture circuit is based on the Nootropic Design video experimenter. We’ve seen a few project use this video experimenter board, but never with such smooth video. The sampler samples frames at a resolution of 128×96 and stores everything in a 256Kbit SRAM. A back-of-the-envelope calculation tells us that the sampler can hold a little under a second of video, more than enough to do something cool.
[gijs] says there is a 1 bit version and a 1.5 bit version of his video sampler. While we’re busy wrapping our minds around what half a bit is, he’ll be upgrading the 1.5 bit version to 2 bits. He’s also ordered some PCBs and expects to have a kit out by October. Check out a demo after the break.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/26420870%5D
Hmmmm… 1.5 bit is 3 bits for two pixels ?
That would give 3 “colors” per pixel : black, white and gray.
… not really …
Wow. I really want one of these. I’m totally going to order one. Btw, does anyone know how he made those slick buttons?
@john seems to be regular push buttons with a cap on which seems engraved/melted to show the white underneath. I’m just guessing here
Could anyone explain this fractional bit concept? Is he just using 3 bits for every 2 pixels or what? That would be odd… you’d have to choose 8 2-pixel brightness combinations to support.
about the 1.5 bits.. there are two ram chips, both store the 1 bit video data, but the two bits are not encoded, so when the video is outputted it just gives 3 colors gray-scale instead of 4.
i made the buttons by spray painting white buttons black, then wait a little and scrape something on the button, wait a little more and spray-paint with transparent paint.
omg that is cool! i love it
You should have used the indelible girl from Ringu 2 for the example.
P.S. really awesome job!
Neato…I wonder what he could do with an old 4MB SIMM…
This is really good! I wonder why so few comments are here.
Half a bit would be like…6.25 cents on the shave and a haircut scale, wouldn’t it
If anyone has spare time, try poking around on Gijs’ site. The man is a creative genius. I’ve been lucky enough to meet him a few times.
Gameboy Camera, anyone?
Its like instagram for video ;)
Great work, I love it, inspires me to try and do some more experimenting.