I was wondering if anyone know if there's any law or such against getting parts from old broken stuff. It seems like the cheapest way to get things and it's recycling too.
I'm working on a little project which will need one of these. It'll need to output composite video. I know there are cheap ones that can output hdtv and such but my needs are simple enough and my tv only has composite. Being able to use 3d graphics with possibility for open gl would be a plus too. It's for a multimedia type of thing. The system I was going to work on was also going to use an arm processor and as few other things as possible.
This was an idea I've been playing with for quite some time. It started out with separate ideas I had about 4 years ago when I was 17. Basically what I had back then were a few adapters which I made by splicing cables together. A while later I cleaned up the concept just a little and decided that it needed more. While I had at that time a near universal adapter for analog audio I had nothing for video or anything else besides power. The real thing this project needed were things I didn't and still don't have such as processors. I picked up a gba and a dreamcast and did some modifications to those but it was anything noteworthy.
Getting to the point the device would be like this. A portable device that let's you hook up just about any type of data source to it, display it, modify it, convert it, store it or whatever you want really. I'm not too tech savvy but I do know that it'd be quite possible with today's technology and the brilliant minds likely to run through this place. Any ideas tips or suggestions are welcome. If this is the wrong place I'll move it elsewhere.
I run another SMF forum so I know a few things it can do. I think you should turn on quick reply. Try to get a few people around here to post a bit every so often but that's about it. See ya around.
