[AG-TECH] "cyborg" PIG ?

[Ivan R. Judson]

I'd love to see a portable platform like this worked on; given the web
services core of AG2 it would be interesting to do a native PocketPC version
of the software and carry around a ipaq :-)

--ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ti Leggett
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:31 PM
> To: Andrew Daviel
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] "cyborg" PIG ?
> 
> 
> Theoretically, it could work, but the AG is a little more 
> demanding than your average point-to-point video 
> conferencing. It's both CPU and network intensive. People 
> have run the PIG software on laptops with decent results, but 
> as soon as more than 2 or 3 streams start coming in, it 
> either bogs down the network or CPU or both. I would see 
> wireless net as being the bottleneck if it's 802.11b. You 
> might squeak by if you're running 802.11a. Just my thoughts. 
> Anyone else?
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:38, Andrew Daviel wrote:
> > Idly curious again, I wondered if anyone has made a "Borg" type PIG 
> > using something like the Charmed wearable computer, or even a 
> > collection of hardware on a laptop with a wireless card.
> > 
> > The idea being to send some hapless guy down the hole with the 
> > flashlight
> > while the "experts" sit in comfort in the AG room and offer 
> "advice"  :-)
> > 
> > Or more probably just show something on AG that is too big to be 
> > moved.
> > 
> > http://www.charmed.com/products/catalog/catalog.php
> > 
> > (Steven Mann have been doing this for years, going into the grocery 
> > store while his wife tells him which apples to buy, but I'm 
> not sure 
> > what software he uses)
> -- 
> Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>
>