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Pipedreams Gadgets and Bits and Bobs

Posted by Cefn on 31 December 2005 | 0 Comments

Getting together the gear to build the pipedreams system.

The plan is based on USB VoIP phones and USB hubs both of which are really cheap these days. I think this should give us as many audio channels out of one computer as we want.

I’ve just placed an order for 3 different VoIP phones to see which are the most effective.  Wondering whether it might be nicer just to have phones hanging there, instead of pipes.

It’s much simpler to start with, although maybe later could get on with pipes.

Will need to chain together a bunch of USB hubs to get enough ports.

Going to build the game logic in Java and the audio manipulation on JSyn (which is the library behind Processing’s Sonia library). Nice holiday project.

While rummaging around on geeks.com I found this Linksys Wireless-G WVC54G 802.11g Internet Video Camera which could be useful for projects needing a webcam, serves up an MPEG4 encoded stream from a built-in webserver (doesn’t need a computer) over a WiFi network. But it is kinda expensive.

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