Android Magic Lantern Controller Multi-Camera

Started by oggettone, November 06, 2012, 04:04:08 PM

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I've seen that in the TODO list there is also the Android Front-end, and I've an idea of what can be done in addition.

I've just bought an Android Micro PC, the Mk802 (http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/).
I paid from a Chinese website around 31 EUR, and its very very low cost for what you get.

I thought that this can be used with ML, its Android Front-End and a tablet (or PC).

I explain my idea:

Since it is equipped with an USB OTG port and a built-in Wi-fi module (and is very low cost device), it could be used like an embedded device (there is also an HDMI output that in this case could be not connected).

I imagine that you can have more than 1 camera and each camera can be equipped with 1 MK802 connected on the USB port.

All the mini-PCs can be connected to the same network, so you can create an application that runs on a tablet or a PC with a multi-view of all the camera connected to the network, the ML FrontEnd will run on each module will forward what it gets to a master application.

In this way you could get a sort of mobile film direction equipment on a tablet or a PC.

Despite the MK802 can run also Ubuntu that supports more devices than android and on the OTG could be connected other devices (e.g. the H1 Zoom audio recorder, http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h1/, could work as an audio USB card), I think that this could open endless possibilities at very low cost.

By the way even if I didn't yet tried, it should have also a built-in IR receiver so you can create a physical  remote control customized for ML.

What do you think?