LittleVision
is the Hotpants display device modified so
that it can play 25-seconds of video. We record the video using a webcam
and special software developed by Justin
Manor. Then the video is compressed and burned directly onto the PIC
microcontroller onboard the Hotpants display, making it a self-contained
video brick.
Tiny Stories is the name we gave to a workshop run by Megan
Galbraith, Simon
Greenwold, Justin
Manor, and James Seo,
in which in 1 1/2 hours we had eleven people with no previous exposure
to this technology film their own tiny movies and burn them onto bricks
they took home. It was a big hit. The images linked from this page are
from that workshop.
We have now done a second workshop with LittleVision at the MIT Museum. This time participants built their own boards first and then made movies. Details here.
