Audio and Video

http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4443249/Teardown–Drone-streams-live-video?_mc=sm_edn&hootPostID=aace25fdd6ccde81d57b00797e517d7a Look at this tiny video streaming drone teardown. →

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s biggest tech event. With nearly 200,000 attendees flooding into the Las Vegas strip for a week in January. Newest event CES 2017 just started. CES is often the home to consumer product announcements and demonstrations of future technologies, so it is one of the most anticipated events →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/a-highres-camera-that-captures-1-million-frames-per-second This is an interesting article on new high speed digital camera technologies. New tricks are possible by integrating memory directly to image sensor. →

Here are some interesting videos on professional audio and video technologies field: Mini backstage tour of the control area video takes a quick look at some of the stuff in the main control area of a big show. The next videos show what is inside some of the audio and video equipment: EEVblog #840 – →

https://www.geek.com/tech/researchers-taught-a-computer-to-compose-christmas-carols-and-its-creepy-1682325/ This is weird AI art… →

It’s still cool to see a functional tool like the oscilloscope manipulated to display unrelated art.  When you input suitable stereo audio into an old scope in in X-Y mode, you can see all kinds of artistic creations. Salvaged Scope Lets You Watch the Music article introduces you how to use old scope for video →

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/john-knoll-rogue-one-star-wars/ Arduino controls the lights in big budget movie props.  →

https://www.hackread.com/mirai-botnet-hacks-surveillance-camera-in-98-secs/ This article reports how Mirai botnet got access to security camera. The security of networked security cameras needs to be improved – the devices with default password can get hacked faster than you can find how to change the password! →

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/great-now-even-headphones-can-spy/ Very many gadgets have microphone that can be used for spying. And in some cases even headphones that don’t have microphones can be used for recording sounds… →

Big wall size video displays has been available from quite bit of time. Very many modern big displays are built using LED technologies that I covered yesterday in Big LED video display technology posting. This article covers some of the older technologies how big wall size video displays have been built. Before huge video displays →