[ML-General] Working with another local, non-profit

[Brian Oborn]

I've done museum exhibits like this before. We ended up using python and Qt
multimedia libraries, but the project was a nuclear reactor simulator so it
was a more complicated program.

What I would recommend is to not have the video looping all of the time. We
had the default be a ambient noise audio loop that drew the users in and
enhanced the experience of seeing the actual exhibit. There was a prominent
panel where a user could push buttons to see different short video segments
when they wanted to turn their attention to them.

I still have the code floating around if and could rework it if you wanted
the basic interactivity.

Brian Oborn

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Steve Boyer <steveboyer85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Many don't know me, but I've been a friend/acquaintance/roommate for
> several of the original Makers back in "the day" and was present for the
> first "Greg almost set <object> on fire" incident at the shop off of
> Governor's.
>
> I'm currently involved with a few organizations, one of them being the
> Saving Our Flying Heritage organization based out of Meridianville Airport.
> One of the goals of the group is to have static displays in addition to
> flight-worthy (and actively flying) military aircraft. An idea that some of
> our members have thought about would be to have a small, looping video
> discussing some of the bullet-points on our static displays (the history of
> the aircraft as a whole, of that individual one, etc). The immediate thing
> I thought of was to have a small display and speakers connected to a
> Raspberry Pi and just have it on an ffplayer or mplayer loop.
>
> Would this be something that some of the makers would like to become
> involved with?
>
> Steve Boyer
>
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