Hi guys,
I wonder if you can point me to direction with a very special problem. (English isn't my first language but I do my best to explain as good as I can).
The Situation
A friend of mine is an electronic musician which has very bad, diminishing, eye sight. This is not getting any better with time.
As a result of his bad eyes he's barely able to read the LCDs on his instruments (Elektron Analog 4 or other synth gear) and has to use big loupes to see anything and decipher what's going on.
The Idea
So I was wondering if it would be possible to tap the data lines which goes to the display, extracting the data and then display the data on different device. (RGB matrix panels for brightness and contrast would be cool.)
Most synth displays are not that big, ie 132x32 monochrome pixels, so it is not that much data.
I can even imagine to pipe the extracted data over to an RaspPi to display the data via HDMI on a large TV or something like that.
Thinking a little bit outside the box this could be great to achieve better accessibility for disabled people. Most gear with LCD, specially vintage stuff, uses the same LCD modules and replacements are easily available.
As did a couple of projects with a Teensy board, but the other direction by addressing displays and building midi controllers so am not afraid to solder or write code etc
What's Next?
It would be awesome if you can give me one or two ideas how approach this. I was looking into a Teensy because of its many IO pins and cpu speed.
Do you think this is even possible?
The other route I am looking into is to grab images from the display via a camera and then apply some image processing (with a RasPi4) and then displaying screen data on different displays (HDMI, TV, Monitor)
So that's it, hope this makes any sense to you.
Thanks for your time and cheers from Berlin,
Sven
I wonder if you can point me to direction with a very special problem. (English isn't my first language but I do my best to explain as good as I can).
The Situation
A friend of mine is an electronic musician which has very bad, diminishing, eye sight. This is not getting any better with time.
As a result of his bad eyes he's barely able to read the LCDs on his instruments (Elektron Analog 4 or other synth gear) and has to use big loupes to see anything and decipher what's going on.
The Idea
So I was wondering if it would be possible to tap the data lines which goes to the display, extracting the data and then display the data on different device. (RGB matrix panels for brightness and contrast would be cool.)
Most synth displays are not that big, ie 132x32 monochrome pixels, so it is not that much data.
I can even imagine to pipe the extracted data over to an RaspPi to display the data via HDMI on a large TV or something like that.
Thinking a little bit outside the box this could be great to achieve better accessibility for disabled people. Most gear with LCD, specially vintage stuff, uses the same LCD modules and replacements are easily available.
As did a couple of projects with a Teensy board, but the other direction by addressing displays and building midi controllers so am not afraid to solder or write code etc
What's Next?
It would be awesome if you can give me one or two ideas how approach this. I was looking into a Teensy because of its many IO pins and cpu speed.
Do you think this is even possible?
The other route I am looking into is to grab images from the display via a camera and then apply some image processing (with a RasPi4) and then displaying screen data on different displays (HDMI, TV, Monitor)
So that's it, hope this makes any sense to you.
Thanks for your time and cheers from Berlin,
Sven
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