Meet the Flamingo!
picoFlamingo is a portable presentation solution for the BeagleBoard
and picoDLP projector. The project can be considered a reduced version
of Priscila, a GNU/Linux based presentation system that defines the
presentation slides in a 3D space. The forthcoming version
of
Priscila
will be named Flaming Flamingo, so the name for this project.
In order to make the system fully portable, the system will be controlled remotely using a Bluetooth capable device. For this first release, the following devices will be considered:
- A netbook (ASUS eeePC)
- A Symbian S60 device running S60Python (a Nokia N70 will be used)
- An OpenMoko free phone taking advantage of the touch screen and accelerometers.
How it works?
A typical use of picoFlamingo is as follows:
- Switch on your picoFlamingo.
- Connect it to your computer. It will appear as an external removable drive
- Copy your presentation media to picoFlamingo Removable Drive in your desktop
- Switch it off and go to your presentation
- Some time later...
- Connect the picoDLP and switch the system on. A nice welcome screen will be shown.
- Activate bluetooth in your OpenMoko and launch the remote control application
- Start your presentation. Use the touch screen interface to go to next and previous slides
- Use the touch screen interface to select object manipulation. Move your OpenMoko around to modify the 3D orientation of the selected 3D object, or select a new one
- Use the touch screen interface to switch the system off
What it does!
- Portable presentation system using projector (picoDLP) or any DVI-D capable device
- Sequential slide navigation
- Automatic (slide show) slide navigation
- 3D slides. The slide components are placed in a 3D space
- 3D models can be added to the slides
- Remote control of the system via Bluetooth (computer, OpenMoko and Symbian S60)
- Advanced remote control, providing user orientation control of 3D models in the slide
- USB Massive Storage Interface. Plug picoFlamingo in your computer as an external hard drive and copy your presentation dragging and dropping files
- ... and many other features that will be revealed as the project progress
