Yes, the sound is really great. I will do some better sound recording tonight. I was already looking for a method to make the cameras give a concert, but unfortunately there are no options to alter the pitch of the sound.
But as soon as I find the time I will do that with small videos. I am planing some funny stuff with them, not only sound. Starting the same video somewhat delayed on all the cameras one could e.g. make a person walk from one screen to the next. I think that this would be a great afterburner to show to the people before leaving a set.
But at the moment I am fighting with CHDKPTP and my Arduino to make them work together. I managed to read serial data coming from the Arduino. I used the Arduino to trigger flashes, give some countdown signals and so on. I have this solutions already working, it is very nice because I have wireless triggers, so I can walk around and examine the different cameras and the scene while shooting. So I would really like this stuff to make it's way into my new "realtime" CHDKPTP project. Now I will use another Arduino to cut and close the USB cables too.
My problem is not that much CHDK related, but more LUA and IUP, I suppose. Nevertheless maybe someone could give me a hint here:
When running chdkptp with the gui, I would like to have sort of a background thread that triggers the download as soon as the Arduino send a signal over the Serial Port. As said I could manage to read from the serial from within a while-do-end-loop, but this blocks the GUI completely, so I can't do anything meanwhile.
I was trying to make a coroutine work, but it has the same effect. Now I suppose I should have some coroutine.yield somewhere, but where and where to resume. There is no "mainloop" in CHDKPTPs gui, only the iup.Mainloop.
tried for hours now, I am about to resign to make it work on my own. Does maybe someone know how to start with that?
Thanks a lot!
PS.:
Wow - that's actually pretty exciting to see. Its fun to play a small part of this project with you.
It´s the complete opposite. It is a very nice thing to see all you unknown girls and guys and nerds here to develop such a great software and maintain such a great project. It would be very nice for me if I could ever meet the biggest gurus here personally, maybe when we are all somewhat older we could have a beach party somewhere, have some nice drinks and enjoy the sunset while listening to the great sound of the first CHDK driven camera orchestra!
