RE: TI-H: QuickCam


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RE: TI-H: QuickCam




The viedo part was a joke.  All I thought it would be useful for is taking
1 picture at a time.

Grant

>Grant, you've lost it.  I'll work on it with you, though.  Just realize
>that there is no way for that calc with any microcontroller hooked up to
>it to handle a decent video stream.  You need to send a crapload of
>digital data across the port and have it dump to the screen immediately,
>and the port speed is too slow.  Decompression would take to long to make
>a difference.
>Christopher Kalos
>raptorone@stuytech.com
>Executive Director/Administrator
>Virtual Technologies Developer's Group
>
>
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>From:   Grant Stockly[SMTP:gussie@alaska.net]
>Sent:   Saturday, January 17, 1998 12:00 AM
>To:     ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject:        Re: TI-H: QuickCam
>
>
>>Yah...i'd love to try it...is the link port capable of handling enough
>>bandwidth though? I know my parallel port has problems with it...
>
>Your parallel port...  The macintosh (serial) has some pacing function that
>I'm investigating.  The AVR will receive a get picture type command and
>relay all of the bytes back to the calc (depending on the calc) so the calc
>can view it.  Add microphone, hub, and you have viedo confrencing on a TI!
>;)
>
>Grant
>
>
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