Project for you micro controller boys...

[Lost User]

I don't have the time or patience, but maybe one of you tinkerers has the desire to make a few million $ off my idea. Take a controller (arduino fro example) and some individually-addressable LED lights. Connect them and write software to colour them individually, one at a time. Don't put the lights in any neat order, just scatter them. Point a web cam at them, and write software to turn on each light, locate that light in the video feed, and store the coordinates. Repeat for all lights. Take an image (jpg or whatever) Using the coordinates of the lights you just mapped, display the image using the lights. Obviously you'd need a lot of lights for a really good image - but with a couple of hundred you should be able to get something recognisable I'd think. So far so good. Now, do an animation. Awesome. Now for total awesomeness, allow the lights to be positioned in 3D. You'd have to scan them in multiple times with a known camera angle - but you can handle that. Now you have a 3D map of the lights - imagine the images you can display? Holographic-like images, messages in 3D - the world is limited only by your imagination and the depth of your pocket. Feel free to commercialise your product -0 sell the HW and SW or just source the SW and sell the SW - whatever is good for you. But next Xmas, when your product is essential buying for everyone with an Xmas tree to decorate, and you have to move house just to home the wads of cash that are coming in, remember me?

MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

[LloydA111]

Sounds a lot like how the Microsoft Kinect works, minus the positioning LED's?

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[Lost User]

I guess you're kinda right - although it does a shedload more than would be necessary for a pretty dispay - prob a bit more lie the PS3 Move which has a light on the end of the controller.

MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

[AlexCode]

This is the main problem with ideas... :) When you think you had a great one there's always someone that comes and tells you it's already been done. :doh: Although, it's also true that a lot of good ideas only took off after someone else was able to dig a proper product out of them. Good luck!! :-D

[GenJerDan]

Kind like this?[^] Maybe more resolution?

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