ive always thought of lcd projectors as based on an overhead projector with full size lcd monitor screen.

but recently i realized there is another way to do it.
using a small lcd monitor sub 3″ and equipment salvaged from a slide projector plus an ultra brite LED you can make an ok projector for relatively small money.

here is an instructables on how to do just that:
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Multimedia-LED-Projector/step2/Materials-and-Tools/

when building such a device you have to get your hands on some ultra bright leds.
for example a 50 w LED
or a 100W LED

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even though i’m reading both animata mailing lists the release of the 004 version for windows slipped my mind.
anyway here is a small excerpt from their google code page, and i mean short.

its obviously major news for me as i have been struggling trying to find out how to control such elements as layer position and camera stuff on windows. as i understood it these options were only accessible in the subversion. but now i they MUST have been included in the 004 version.

by the way they are also released for mac osx both intel and ppc.

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eyesweb is like opencv but instead of mostly used as a library (as i see opencv) eyesweb is a suite in itself, able to either both process and ouput analysed content or to transmit the data to another platform for output.
the programming is done by using blocks , much like in msp or pure data. you can load different libraries and there is much help to get from different places

download eyesweb for pc, here:
http://www.infomus.org/EyesWeb/Eyw5New.html

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first check out the readme on the googlecode page. it says:

Installing on Windows
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On Windows Animata is compiled from Cygwin (http://cygwin.org/).
Cygwin packages: python, subversion, fltk-devel, libjpeg-devel, libjpg62
libpng12, libpng12-devel, gcc-core, gcc-g++
Download the Scons tarball from http://scons.org, and copy it to your cygwin
home directory. Then type:
tar -zxvf scons-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd scons-1.2.0
python setup.py install

here is a little explanation to all this.
cygwin is a program for windows that let you run certain ‘cygwinized’ versions of linux programs. this means that if a certain linux program has been compiled for run in cygwin you will be able to run it, but you cannot run every linux program in cygwin.

the first part is to install cygwin on your windows pc. (this tutorial takes for granted you are using windows XP)
get the webinstaller here. it takes care of the gathering of sources etc. for you.
when you have downloaded and start installing you will come to a screen giving you options to choose which packages you want to install.
here you should note that you get an answer for this in the given animata readme:

Cygwin packages: python, subversion, fltk-devel, libjpeg-devel, libjpg62
libpng12, libpng12-devel, gcc-core, gcc-g++

these are found like this:

• python is just a category in itself , mark the whole category to be installed.
• subversion and gcc are found in the devel category, mark everything with gcc or subversion to be installed
• libjpeg-devel is also found in the devel category
• libjpg62 is found as libjpeg62 in the graphics category as well is libpng12 and libpng12-devel

mark all these for install and hope that you had chosen a good download mirror.
start the install. and wait, if something crashes you are lucky that you can run the installer as many times as you like.
reasons of crash can be that a certain package is not findable on a certain mirror.
so a good stragedy is to install without too many options to start with and then build up your cygwin install afterwords.

look out for part 2 in this series.

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ive managed to install animata on ubuntu, havent checked out its total functions but i would say that its fully functioning.
here is my steps in general.

1. i started by learning if others were in my situation this brought me to this post in the animata mailing list.
2. by reading i learned that to install i needed to svn their subversion database
   this was done by the following command:
   svn checkout http://animata.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ animata-read-only
   by looking up the svn a data tree was downloaded to my local user folder in home/user/animata-read-only
3. then i learned that the scons package was needed :
   sudo apt-get install scons
4. then i learned that something about FLTK was needed:
   this was done using synaptics package manager
   search for libfltk1.1 and install the dev as well.
5. now cd into the animata directory and run the following in a terminal:
   scons
   this will unpacke a lot and stuff,
6. if everything runs smoothly go to step 8 else go to step 7
7. if there is trouble go to this archive of articles on the ubuntu animata subject and search for help, else write an email to the mailing list
8. now cd into the build dir in the animata dir. and run the following:
   ./animata
   if it opens fine, your finished!!! :-)      - else head on downwards
9. howver this seemed nice and stuff i did get an unknown error:
   Failed to initialize GEM. Falling back to classic.
   i searched the internet and found out it is something with the graphics
   learning a little i came to that it was my intel drivers , so this article helped me getting them right:
   first i tried to revert to old drivers but finding out i was running the old drivers , even though i have jaunty, i tried installing the new drivers by:
   sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
   then i tried running the animata again and guess what it worked
10. thanks goes to the animata mailing list community!!!

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