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<News> - Sweet eye candy cabinet!
blueznl:
Don't stop them selling it! It would be hellish to take an Ambient PC apart just to get your hands on one of these kits :)
I wonder how it works though... Oh, the joy of an engineering mind... :(
RandyT:
It's not all that difficult to do. It's even possible using an LED-Wiz (with the right software, of course)
One would need to write a piece of resident background code which would take a screen cap at certain intervals. Then perform some math on the bitmap to get color averages based on quadrants, strips, etc., of the screen and then light the RGB LED's corresponding to the positions according to the color data.
I think Howard mentioned he was playing with this idea a while back.
RandyT
Kaytrim:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 16, 2007, 10:04:46 am ---
It's not all that difficult to do. It's even possible using an LED-Wiz (with the right software, of course)
One would need to write a piece of resident background code which would take a screen cap at certain intervals. Then perform some math on the bitmap to get color averages based on quadrants, strips, etc., of the screen and then light the RGB LED's corresponding to the positions according to the color data.
I think Howard mentioned he was playing with this idea a while back.
RandyT
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Replace the standard black bezel with Polypropylene plastic sheeting and put the LEDs behind the plastic next to the monitor. Talk about BLING. :o Then to take it to the next level have some of the LEDs shining out the back of the cab so the wall takes on the same illumination. Talk about getting immersed in the game.
blueznl:
Randy is right there. Euh, that sounds funny :) Anyway, it would not be necessary to do full screen caps, in fact just grabbing a bunch of pixels would be enough. I don't like the A.R.E 's suggestion of adding a cheap PC and screen capture card (though it would work) and I wonder how they grab DirectX screens... (That's a pain, as far as I know.)
What a challenging project...
squirrellydw:
this might have to go into my jukebox that I plan on building this summer.
Randy, why don't you make something like this??