Have hardware
Needs to be powered on by ethernet (Wake on LAN) (always off when not in use)
Needs to be able to stream to justin.tv or similar site
Needs to be able to capture to disk and prepare file easily
Perhaps a web interface to generate title and such on front of file
Will drive LED sign at back of area to show current status (Ready to record, Recording, etc)
Possible to have multiple camera inputs with a video switcher
Listens for power on and shutdown commands from AMX system
4u rackmount, no screamers
Wake on LAN for power savings
XBMC, perhaps two instances bound to separate video cards (if this is possible)
This is tied to the projectors
Possible to get two separate X desktops on separate video cards with two keyboards/mice ?
Daemon to handle volume control on sound card(s) for AMX system
Some script hacks to facilitate facility integreation
4u and quiet
Interested: Jody
Terminate VPNs from WiFi?
Provide home directories & storage for members / Windows + Unix + OSX domain/NFS?
Possibly handle wifi rate limiting / DMZ (rate limited (5/.5)
Very low power (miniITX or something) on all the time
Provides some environmental stuff (temperature, door alerts, scrapes from access control, etc)
Interested: Chris Smith
Basics done early
Ethan is going to talk about it for those interested
Going to acquire more parts (AMX AXT-CV10 v3.0 or better, AXU-CV10 c3.0+, AXT-CA10, etc)
Interested: Jody, MarkG (Has Sonitrol experience)
Try to get commercial system to start (used) then homegrow a replacement?
Wiegand protocol used for HID readers
Not enough door frame outside on front for card + pin
Possible solution is thru window touchpad (pimp), this requires scrapping of commercial system
Not sure cost of repplacement door strike for front door
Suggest leaving back door as is with physical locks
Build CNC machine
Interested: Travis
Have supplies
Setup laser engraver
Aurcade game OCR system w/ RFID, WPCScorelog + RFID
Laser Array (have 70% of supplies purchased already)
Open Source Sidescan Sonar System
Some other embedded ideas (possible commercialization)
(others insert your ideas)
Rotary dial entry system
USB floppy drive based auto-login
libusb-based USB sniffer
USB interfaced Punch-card reader (It's good practice to be portable with ALL Computers, you know)
Altoids Tin USB chargers
Marx Generator
Vortex Cannon (yay smoke rings)
Coilgun (railgun mini-me)
I've got a classic Xbox memory card with a USB dock, we could totally attempt to reverse that…
Remote controlled Catapult on wheels
SMS system for checking lab status