Raspberry Pi, and a video

I haven't put in much effort or made much progress lately. I have a problem with increasing the brightness of the IR LED (ie current through it) which broadcasts serial in IR, modulated with a 38KHz carrier signal. Using an AND gate, or just plain transistors, it just doesn't seem to transmit the same signal. I think I will leave the detail for another post.

The other thing is that I'm waiting for my Raspberry Pi Linux on ARM mini-PC to arrive (in about 5 weeks). I'm planning to try to use this to compress and transmit video from a USB HD webcam, at as high a resolution as it can do quickly, over WiFi. Framerate and latency are the most important, followed by resolution and quality. This will also provide network connectivity for the Arduino, in the form of a serial-to-network program, much the same as I currently have with the wireless IP Camera, except a lot smaller, lighter, lower-power, more powerful and hackable :)

So I'm not going to put any more effort into improving analog video capture as hopefully that will all be redundant soon, it will be all purely digital :)

I'll leave this post with some video of my current car being driven around at Hackerspace Brisbane. Sorry it seems to be upside down.