[AG-TECH] Sharing Handwritten Presentation Slides on AG ?

[Jeremy W Herr]

Hello,
	As far as capturing physical transparencies, I am looking into
cconsumer digital cameras (2+ MegaPixels) that can be controlled via USB
or RS232.  People have supposedly successfully controlled cameras this way
with Java and Linux (e.g. http://jphoto.sourceforge.net/ ).  Anyway, you
could just (using e.g. Gaffer Tape) mount a cheap camera onto the arm of
an old overhead transparency projector, and make the camera take pictures
of the transparencies (e.g. 1 per second) and download them and then ship
them to the LCD projector or wherever.  This is what we will be doing in
the coming months for our lecture-recording device.
	This would be a cheap solution assuming you already have in place
a computer to control the camera and an LCD projector.  Nice document
cameras are like over $2000 I think.  And 2 MegaPixel images are probably
high enough resolution for anything you would need.

Jeremy

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>On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 05:47, Stuart Levy wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:25:57PM -0700, daagarwal wrote:
>> > Cindy,
>> > have yon considered having your instructor use a tablet PC
>> > for real time handwritten notes and equations?  I am experimenting
>> > with one now. It seems good for on-the-fly handwritten equations
>> > and notes.
>> > Deb
>>
>> Coolio.  Some people here were thinking to try one.  I'm hoping
>> to use the mbone whiteboard tool (wbd) with it -- though as
>> someone here pointed out recently, wbd doesn't use RTP, so
>> I guess we can't use Voyager to record it, too bad.
>> Do you use that, or what?
>>
>
>A few groups over here have been using Media Lecture Board (MLB) from
>http://www.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/informatik/pi4/projects/mlb/. It
>works quite well and uses RTP. Linux & Windows versions are available.
>
>chris
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