projectors

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Cyclabile, a labile bike lane

Cyclabile is an experiment about showing a moving bike lane on the road: the image moves according to the bike movement, producing the effect of riding on an actual bike lane, even when there isn't one.

The effectiveness of projecting an image on the paving instead of using a traditional light can be argued, of course.

For now the project purpose is more about having some fun and making a statement (there should be more bike lanes) rather than building an actual usable product.


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libam7xxx-0.1.7 released

The libam7xxx-0.1.7 release is out; it's a maintenance release with no big new features.


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libam7xxx-0.1.6 released

The libam7xxx-0.1.6 release is out; it's a maintenance release with no big new features.


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Linux KMS driver for Acer C120

Hans de Goede informs me that he has been working on gm12u320-kms: a new linux kernel driver for the Acer C120 mini projector, and possibly other devices based on the Grain Media GM12U320 USB3 bridge chip.


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libam7xxx-0.1.4 released

Release 0.1.4 of libam7xxx is out, bringing a very nice performance improvement.


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Acer C110 pico projector with BeagleBone Black

I was having a hard time getting the Acer C110 USB pico projector work when connected to the BeagleBone Black, it wasn't showing up on the USB bus at all, no sign of it in the kernel messages and consequently no sign of it in lsusb.

Projecting the Ångström login screen
Cable setup 1
Cable setup 2

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libam7xxx-0.1.3 released

After almost one year of fixes and new functionalities here is libam7xxx-0.1.3.


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On USB projectors, linux and libam7xxx

I was looking into compact/mini/pico/handheld projectors, and I obviously wanted something I could use under GNU/linux, there were basically two choices: