Attention - dlp is here

[mixedgas]

TI finally decided that DEV kits should come down in price from 13,000$

SEE: http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/picoproj.html

I know Mike fairly well, so if somebody has specific questions, chime in!

Steve

[allthatwhichis]

Nice deconstruction! Does your friend have too much cash on hand? That thing couldn't have been cheap even after the price drop from $13K.

[mixedgas]

349 for the unit and 149 for the driver board plus shipping to UK

http://focus.ti.com/dlpdmd/docs/dlpd...=60&tabId=2235

driver
http://beagleboard.org/

Its I2C so its not the fastest interface either.

If I wanted to, I could get off my butt and build a laser video system with better quality then this (actually I have the partz for NTSC using resonant scanners) but I'm too busy trying to survive, and writing SELEM on the wall in Raster laser at SELEM isnt going to contribute much to the coffers.

Steve

[daedal]

I'm in... and have been looking forward for this to go down in price... i guess i would be investing in a dev kit pretty soon ;D

--DDL

[-bart-]

Can someone please tell me why the DLP + laserpointer combo gives no interference artifacts ???
I would expect severe ghost images due to the fact that a DLP-device is one huge grating.
I know shining a laserbeam on a CCD has this feature, so i can't imagine why a DLP hasn't.

[mixedgas]

Can someone please tell me why the DLP + laserpointer combo gives no interference artifacts ???
I would expect severe ghost images due to the fact that a DLP-device is one huge grating.
I know shining a laserbeam on a CCD has this feature, so i can't imagine why a DLP hasn't.

slight movements of the mirrors during refresh help, but if you look at the DLP/POinter combo, you can see aweful speckle. There are ways to "kill" the fringes and speckle, mainly by moving the beam slightly.

Steve

[heroic]

349 for the unit and 149 for the driver board plus shipping to UK

http://focus.ti.com/dlpdmd/docs/dlpd...=60&tabId=2235

driver
http://beagleboard.org/

Its I2C so its not the fastest interface either.

No, it isn't; it's HDMI/DVI-D. The I2C is only for display identification and controller reprogramming.

[mixedgas]

No, it isn't; it's HDMI/DVI-D. The I2C is only for display identification and controller reprogramming.

mea culpa, I went back and read the data sheet. Then I discarded the falsehoods I learned from the IT marketing web site.

Steve