Instant VJ

[ARieu]

Hello, I'm new on this forum. From 1960 on I am working with electronics. My speciality is analog visual hardware. Now, just before my retirement, I am back to basics, after the digital revolution. A month ago I started a project, making a small VJ device for your mobilephone. In short; this tool is feeded with audio/visual material from the AV output of my SGS phone. Any device with an AV pal/ntsc output will do. The sound is going to modulate (influence) the video and comes from a external line input or the build-in microphone. The video is going to pass some analog effects (wipe,posterisation, solarisation, inversion, etc) and leaves the device as a composite signal. The VJ device has the same size as an Iphone, incl. the battery. So, you can click this device on the back of your mobilephone. I talk about realtime videoprocessing. There are several manual controls to influence the outcome. This is an open hardware project and when there are some results I will show this on You Tube. Be patient, working with video circuits is of an other order as sound.
The name of the project is Instant VJ. Summary:
Design and construction of a small VJ device with RT analog videoeffects. This effects are under control of sound and manual sliders. The content comes from the mobilephone videoplayer (playlist) or any external pal/ntsc source. In the first half of 2011, I will publish the schematic diagram and board layout. Parts will be easy to get and all will do not more than 100 dollar.

[egw]

Sounds interesting.

And Welcome to the forum!

[tazer]

Hey great project keep us posted.

[djfoxyfox]

Perhaps you'll find Scanimate of interest. This machine did many of the animation you saw on TV and in the movies in the '70s and '80s.
https://vimeo.com/172607783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk

IIRC, this machine is near Hendersonville, NC.