Here is another exciting RoadTest. For the first time ever, we are offering a TI DLP® Evaluation Module the DLPLIGHTCRAFTER.
To qualify for a chance to RoadTest this great new evaluation module from TI DLP® please post as part of your application to this RoadTest your creative ideas and thoughts on what new application & products could potentially be designed using a DLPLIGHTCRAFTER evaluation module. Please also feel free to visit the Element14 DLP Group.
DLP® LightCrafter™ is a compact evaluation module for integrating projected light into industrial, medical, and scientific applications. This DLP-based platform enables faster development cycles for end equipments requiring small form factor, lower cost and intelligent, high-speed pattern display. DLP LightCrafter features the 0.3 WVGA chipset, provides a variety of embedded functionality such as: structured light pattern projection, intelligent lighting, wavelength selection and portable display.
Developers can easily create, store, and display high-speed pattern sequences through DLP LightCrafter's USB-based application programming interface (API) and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). The module also features the powerful TMS320DM365 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology from Texas Instruments. With an ARM9 DSP core, DLP LightCrafter's DM365 runs a Linux operating system to give users the ability to develop a complete embedded system around the 0.3 WVGA chipset. A configurable input/output trigger allows for convenient synchronization with cameras, sensors, or other peripheral devices.
The DLP LightCrafter includes an RGB LED light engine developed and manufactured by Young Optics International. Designed specifically for the DLP3000 DMD, this light engine produces bright, wide aspect ratio patterns well-suited for use in a variety of ambient light environments. For applications where even higher brightness is required, active cooling and thermal management systems can be added to enable light out in excess of 50 lumens.
I like your thinking in both the consumer and scientific research world. Its really innovative and a way we should all think. I am a high school student and products like these and other products offered on roadtest are really great for getting into the electronics world.
Thank you all for applying. This RoadTest is now closed. We are pleased to announce the following members that have been selected to receive a Texas Instruments DLP LightCrafter Road Test:
Daniel August
Christopher Langlois
Chin Wong
Congratulations! Your product will be shipped to the address each of you provided when you applied for this RoadTest. As a reminder, element14 and our supplier partners send these products free-of-charge because we place high value upon your unbiased, detailed product review. Please post your review back here within 3-6 weeks of receiving your item.
For those who were not selected to win this product, we have the Arduino Uno Board Road Test open for applicants
It would be good for a projected keyboard, or could be used measure depth changes on a surface(like analyze changes in a grid and could be used for a quadrotor autonomous landing). Or used as a center piece on a table and could project a menu, TV, Internet info. Or Project info on the ceiling for when you wake up.(check the weather, stock, Daily schedule) Or the same concept but in a shower. Or used as a communication device/interface for robot-human interaction.(R2D2 type thing).
This could be used as a Spread Spectrum Analyzer, it would be a very good way to analyze the differences in the visiblre light that can be detected by our robots
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This unit clearly has an enourmous potential for 3D....in particular 3D scanning....i'd like to see it used for driver verification (facial profile) in vehicles....if integrated properly, such an integration…
I would like to use it on a z axis slide for stereo-lithography. It would make a great compact 3d printer.
This could be used as a Spread Spectrum Analyzer, it would be a very good way to analyze the differences in the visiblre light that can be detected by our robots