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From: Jan Panteltje on 11 Jun 2010 10:24 I have made some webpages with all scripts and software and hardware diagrams for this project: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html
From: Grant on 11 Jun 2010 17:24 On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >I have made some webpages with all scripts and software and hardware diagrams for this project: > http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html Please try to make the circuit diagram more readable. More light! What sort of camera you using? You should be able to stand back a bit, zoom in to fill the frame, use the flash, adjust exposure down a little if too bright. Even with a little P&S cam you could get a better image. A few tries and your pencil circuits would be a lot clearer :) I hope to get S6B0107 based JHD19264 192x64 graphics module going one day soonish, then I'll take a closer look at what you've done there. Little 'i' has an extra pixel, looks like 'l'? Did you have to make your own character generator lookup table? Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: Jan Panteltje on 11 Jun 2010 18:17 On a sunny day (Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:24:07 +1000) it happened Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote in <rn9516959ourgep00afuuhqrvs0tfuouom(a)4ax.com>: >On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >>I have made some webpages with all scripts and software and hardware diagrams for this project: >> http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html > >Please try to make the circuit diagram more readable. More light! Ah, yes.... but I want to leave something to the users.... All that pre-made stuff... >What sort of camera you using? You should be able to stand back a >bit, zoom in to fill the frame, use the flash, adjust exposure down >a little if too bright. Even with a little P&S cam you could get >a better image. A few tries and your pencil circuits would be a >lot clearer :) I think the right way is to run it throug an image processor, and slice it at some grey level, play with gamma. even better is to do it in xcircuit, or maybe LTspice. I have ordners full of A4 pieces of paper with diagrams like this, some very complicated. >I hope to get S6B0107 based JHD19264 192x64 graphics module going >one day soonish, then I'll take a closer look at what you've done >there. OK. >Little 'i' has an extra pixel, looks like 'l'? The top picture in that link uses my character generator, an character set. That character set is very nice, look at this: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/xkrs/xkrs.jpg The picture below that uses the ImageMagick 'convert' utility to add text to the Linux 'rclock' program. That last thing does not render characters very well with this small font 'Bookman-Demi -pointsize 9', so it suffers from aliasing. Also I had to set some slice level to get reasonable characters when converting the ImageMagick .ppm output to 128x64 bitmap. Just toying around with it. As you can see there from the pics of the LCD tehre is nothing wrong with the camera. >Did you have to make your own character generator lookup table? Did that in the eighties, and still using this one :-). Added some German characters over time, as a choice, and the Viditel / ceefax / videotext semi graphics as in the picture link above. >Grant. >-- >http://bugs.id.au/ >
From: Jan Panteltje on 12 Jun 2010 08:13 On a sunny day (Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:24:07 +1000) it happened Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote in <rn9516959ourgep00afuuhqrvs0tfuouom(a)4ax.com>: >On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >>I have made some webpages with all scripts and software and hardware diagrams for this project: >> http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html >Little 'i' has an extra pixel, looks like 'l'? Actually that sort of remark triggers something in me. Of course *my software* is perfect (as J.L. will agree). So I explained last night that the problem is with the ImageMagick package font aliasing. To prove that, and show what this thing can do, here some screen shots with ImageMagick removed from the script. In this I use the Linux 'rclock' as a 'loupe', magnifying glass. It grabs a 128x64 pixel image (of my 1680 x 1050 screen). A very simple trick makes that possible: I put rclock with the rodent^H^H^H^H^H^H mouse where I want to grab the screen, then push it in the background (right mouse button in fvwm). Then the script with my soft no longer grabs rclock, but whatever is in front of it: The full screen, with rclock in front, with the smallest readable font selected in the xterm: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/rclock_as_magnifying_glass_screenshot_127.gif Then I push rclock into the back, and the LCD then shows this: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/xterm_tiny_font_top_img_2019.jpg http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/xterm_tiny_font_img_2020.jpg I think that is very good to begin with. But it gets more fun, as it is graphics, I just put rclock over the icons in the GUI: Mahjong: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_4_img_2021.jpg Kmidi: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_3_img_2022.jpg Some camera: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_2_img_2023.jpg Seyon: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_1_img_2025.jpg Eagle: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/eagles_img_2026.jpg But there is more, if you do it on the browser, from http://comics.com/peanuts/ http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/snoopy_2_img_2030.jpg http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/snoopy_1_img_2031.jpg You can also grab a color picture that way, I am limited by copyright here... http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/color_picture_img_2029.jpg I will remove this shortly, just as demo... Anyways, all this with the small hack 'ppm2lcd.c' , you find here: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html This is the /usr/local/sbin/update_lcd_loupe script that I used to grab those LCD images: killall -KILL rclock # LCD cls echo -e "\f" > /dev/ttyS0 echo -e "\f" > /dev/ttyS0 rclock -geometry 128x64 & #window_id=ininfo -name "$(date +'%a %b %d')" | awk '/xwininfo/{print $4}' while [ 1 ] do # baudrate to 115200 /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 115200 # no echo /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -echo # 2 stop bits /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 cstopb # report new baudrate #/bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a window_id=ininfo -name "$(date +'%a %b %d')" | awk '/xwininfo/{print $4}' import -silent -window $window_id /tmp/lcd_clock.ppm convert /tmp/lcd_clock.ppm /tmp/q1.ppm ppm2lcd /tmp/q1.ppm 3 1>/dev/ttyS0 sleep 6 done And of course you need scope_pic: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/index.html and that will give you an almost free storage scope with FFT on top of that. It is easy! BTW the camera is a Canon A470, I shoot the LCD pictures on a tripod with a 2 second timer on super macro without flash. Lighting is 2 30 W fluorescent tubes overhead, plus some sunlight from a window from the side.
From: Jan Panteltje on 12 Jun 2010 09:21
On a sunny day (Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:24:07 +1000) it happened Grant <omg(a)grrr.id.au> wrote in <rn9516959ourgep00afuuhqrvs0tfuouom(a)4ax.com>: >On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >>I have made some webpages with all scripts and software and hardware diagrams for this project: >> http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html >Little 'i' has an extra pixel, looks like 'l'? Actually that sort of remark triggers something in me. Of course *my software* is perfect (as J.L. will agree). So I explained last night that the problem is with the ImageMagick package font aliasing. To prove that, and show what this thing can do, here some screen shots with ImageMagick removed from the script. In this I use the Linux 'rclock' as a 'loupe', magnifying glass. It grabs a 128x64 pixel image (of my 1680 x 1050 screen). A very simple trick makes that possible: I put rclock with the rodent^H^H^H^H^H^H mouse where I want to grab the screen, then push it in the background (right mouse button in fvwm). Then the script with my soft no longer grabs rclock, but whatever is in front of it: The full screen, with rclock in front, with the smallest readable font selected in the xterm: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/rclock_as_magnifying_glass_screenshot_127.gif Then I push rclock into the back, and the LCD then shows this: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/xterm_tiny_font_top_img_2019.jpg http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/xterm_tiny_font_img_2020.jpg I think that is very good to begin with. But it gets more fun, as it is graphics, I just put rclock over the icons in the GUI: Mahjong: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_4_img_2021.jpg Kmidi: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_3_img_2022.jpg Some camera: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_2_img_2023.jpg Seyon: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/icon_1_img_2025.jpg Eagle: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/eagles_img_2026.jpg But there is more, if you do it on the browser, from http://comics.com/peanuts/ http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/snoopy_2_img_2030.jpg http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/snoopy_1_img_2031.jpg You can also grab a color picture that way, I am limited by copyright here... http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/color_picture_img_2029.jpg I will remove this shortly, just as demo... Anyways, all this with the small hack 'ppm2lcd.c' , you find here: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/remote.html This is the /usr/local/sbin/update_lcd_loupe script that I used to grab those LCD images: killall -KILL rclock # LCD cls echo -e "\f" > /dev/ttyS0 echo -e "\f" > /dev/ttyS0 rclock -geometry 128x64 & #window_id=ininfo -name "$(date +'%a %b %d')" | awk '/xwininfo/{print $4}' while [ 1 ] do # baudrate to 115200 /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 115200 # no echo /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -echo # 2 stop bits /bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 cstopb # report new baudrate #/bin/stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a window_id=ininfo -name "$(date +'%a %b %d')" | awk '/xwininfo/{print $4}' import -silent -window $window_id /tmp/lcd_clock.ppm convert /tmp/lcd_clock.ppm /tmp/q1.ppm ppm2lcd /tmp/q1.ppm 3 1>/dev/ttyS0 sleep 6 done And of course you need scope_pic: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/scope_pic/index.html and that will give you an almost free storage scope with FFT on top of that. It is easy! BTW the camera is a Canon A470, I shoot the LCD pictures on a tripod with a 2 second timer on super macro without flash. Lighting is 2 30 W fluorescent tubes overhead, plus some sunlight from a window from the side. |