[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Activities] New activity: Retroscope

[simon at mungewell.org]

Hi Gabriel,
I haven't had a chance to fully try this as I don't have a real XO, but
spun it up on an emulated session without V4L support. Here's a suggestion
for a feature.

At the Vancouver aquarium they have a video camera on a tank of starfish
which records the last 8 hours or so. There is a little wheel which you
can turn to change the portion of video you were watching. The faster you
spin the wheel the faster the starfish moved.

You can probably tell I found this rather fun.... ;-)

Given that the XO has a limitation on storage you probably couldn't record
8 hours (on external disk/SDCard maybe), but being able to change playback
speed and direction could be fun. Maybe control of forward/backward speed
could be via the touchpad.

Cheers,
Simon.

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:04
> Subject: [Activities] New activity: Retroscope
> To: activities at lists.laptop.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've created a new activity called Retroscope.  It's really simple -
> it shows you live video, but delayed 0 to 10 seconds.  I've attached
> it (all 4.8K) and would love to hear feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel