[Balloon] Add ons and expansion mechanical layout

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Author: Paul Carpenter
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To: balloon
Subject: [Balloon] Add ons and expansion mechanical layout
I noticed the site from the recent Electronics Weekly write up on Aleph and
the Balloon board...

Looked around the site and see some interesting things, noted that someone
was interested in video grabber boards, one of my fortes... Been involved
in video processing in one way or another and have run a GNU mailing list
for over 5 years on embedded processing.

Are people interested in video grabber addons?
If so what type(s) of input?
e.g. PAL/NTSC, composite, SVHS, RGB, or other?
Number of inputs?
Direct memory interface, or DMA type interface?
Single frame or with sequence capture?
Picture o/p using same video standard or not of passthrough/grabbed frame?
What if any image processing?

What sort of software to start with?
        Just Driver?
        Basic grab and save to memory/file?
        Image manipulation functions?


Of course to do this requires mechanical format details and the like, which
I could not find easily on the site.

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