uze6666 wrote:There's a slowdown these days with the project and I'm looking at a way to crank that up. With Havok's hardware to come soon, I'm wondering how to attract more attention. For myself, I've got some talents in media productions like music/videos.
(I was meaning to ask you about that-- your demo videos are entirely un-homebrew.)

Where's the flat lighting, whining camera motor sounds in the background, and tripod-only squared up framing?
Let me know of ANY idea you have to promote the project, I'll do my best to make it happen

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I was planning press releasing the 'stamp'/baseboards to Circuit Cellar and Nuts&Volts magazines here in the states-- but I'm thinking the 'big' win would be some articles for either magazine (or 'Make', etc.). I had planned on writing a piece or two from a platform perspective (here's this system, here's how to get started with it, etc.), but maybe the thing to do would be team up and take it from the ground up? I fear the low level stuff will be over the head of Nuts&Volts, but Circuit Cellar might work. (They're covering the Propeller...)
We're probably too late for Embedded Applications in January, but Embedded Programming in April has a January cutoff... Be good to have a bunch of "stuff" available online so when the article proposal goes in they'll be able to pop in online and see what all it can do. I can see the low-level generation of video/audio being interesting for Embedded Programming in particular. There's been some video generation articles in the past, but sound has been somewhat neglected except for a few special cases.
We should probably put an iPod Mini battery and the stamp board inside a SNES controller and play your Tetris game and get it up on Make or SlashDot, etc.
Maybe a contest with a few prizes? Best old-school demo, best game, best application. Offer up some stamps/baseboards as prizes, maybe some cash or something?
-Clay