[sdiy] How much is a Chameleon ?)

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> ripe for embedding in SDIY projects. Imagine this: a synth module (could be
> Euro or Frac - the Beagle is tiny) with a few knobs,
(...)
> Video ports
(...)
> & pipe to projector for live visuals

Hmmm.... did someone say video modular synth?

> You want blinky lights?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
> ASSI wrote:
>>
>> On Montag 21 Juli 2008, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>>>
>>> Main question I've got is what the battery life is like
>>
>> Right on the homepage they say "around 10+ hours".
>
> Indeed - I spotted that shortly after posting.
>
> I dug around a bit more on the websites for the various OMAP projects and
> these look pretty cool. The main SOC has:
> * a 600MHz ARM Cortex with MMU so it can run a full Linux distro (they've
> got Ubuntu going on it). It also has a vector math (SIMD) engine.
> * a 430MHz TI DSP with 6 ALUs & 2 Multipliers that allows 8 simultaneous
> operations.
> * 2D/3D Video engine
> * About 512kB of total cache memory across the various processors.
> * 128MB SDRAM, 256MB Flash stacked on top of the processor in a
> package-on-package configuration.
> * plenty of I/O
>
> While the OpenPandora project looks like a cool toy, the Beagle board seems
> ripe for embedding in SDIY projects. Imagine this: a synth module (could be
> Euro or Frac - the Beagle is tiny) with a few knobs, a few audio I/O jacks,
> USB & Video ports that runs a full chain of virtual synths. Hookup keyboard,
> video, mouse for studio work and tweaking, or pull them off and use knobs to
> select patches during a live gig. Or leave video connected during
> performance & pipe to projector for live visuals synced to the performance.
> You want blinky lights?
>
> Linux has some fairly advanced audio processing applications including
> VST-workalikes with hosts, patch-bays, soft synths, effects, etc. all of
> which could be ported to this hardware with minimal effort (recompile for
> ARM). Digging deeper, porting the critical code to the on-chip DSP could
> expand the total number of simultaneous plugins possible.
>
> The Beagle only has one each stereo in/out, but it appears there are 2 more
> McBSP ports accessible via a header for a total of 6 audio ins and 6 output
> channels possible. If someone were to make a custom board with emphasis on
> audio applications then that could be expanded to 10 each with ports that
> the Beagle board doesn't pin-out.
>
> Just blue sky here, but this could be pretty cool...
>
> Eric
>
>
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