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Hi there!

I'm new to arduino programming and have previously used other microcontrollers such as an 08M, anyway...

I was hoping for advice on the feasibility of a project I am attempting. I am a fine art student and am looking to display a visual thread of live information that is originated from a viewer mounted input sensor.

Let me explain better... I aim to have a pair of glasses or helmet which a viewer of my work would put on, onto which will be attached an input sensor (i had thought an LDR or PIR), which would be processed by the arduino, and output (through a tv screen) a visual stream which would be effected by the input sensor.

I realise I am being quite broad in saying "visual stream", but I do not mind what this is. It could be an evolving visual (which would be ideal), but anything as base as a stream of data or coding would work just as well. The only important factor is that I need the output, through this screen, to be directly effected, live, by the movement of the sensor.

Hopefully I have made a little bit of sense!

Imagine a person putting on a pair of glasses with the sensor on, who could see a live reaction on the tv screen, to when they move their head in different directions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and again apologies if I have made absolutely no sense...

Thanks in advance,

Will

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Most other questions of this nature point towards R Pi being much better at handling video.

Weedpharma

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Thank you! Will look into it.

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Your questions seems like as good of a reason as any to share this photo.

Can you see the "HI" displayed with the LEDs?

The camera is in the top left of the photo and the output from the camera is being read by an 8-bit parallel ADC and the LEDs are being PWM by shifting out bits very quickly to a stack of '595 shift registers.

It's really a very low resolution, monochrome video monitor but for some reason, it looked really cool to see what the camera saw show up on LEDs.

Here's the back side of the LED array.

There's some additional information about the project here.

The Raspberry Pi can of course do video output just fine but the Propeller can also output NTSC and VGA.

I hope you let us know what you decide to do. I'll probably add a couple more ideas/thought to this thread.