Hey guys Im a high school student who’s really enthusiastic about technology and have an idea for a new project but I need some help to figure out what materials I need and how to put it together. I entry level experience in CAD and CAM and coding.
I am looking to build a gadget targeted towards the entertainment industry. This piece of technology is designed to provide accessibility to learning lines and lyrics,.
What are the features of this project? This project features a base with a on and off switch, a battery and a speaker, it also features a projection device, at its full function I want it to be a hologram projection with all your lyric or lines.
This device will be controlled by an app that you upload your audio files and scripts to. The idea is to get performers looking up and out to the audience and still being able to read and learn without looking down at a screen or paper script.
This device is for learning lines not advertisements and isn’t intended to be seen by audience
I am also looking for a touch sensitive rollable mat to make a mat I can take anywhere and designed from
So basically a mobile teleprompter ? Or is there some feature of hologram you want ?
It looks as though you have fallen into the common trap of trying to come up with a solution before fully thinking out the purpose and how the device will be used and documenting the design.
not quite I thought this trough a lot and have done a few design plans of what I would like the product to look like but am struggling to explain it. and yes the idea is to have a hologram of the words it would also play the audio and would be more compact and easier to acquire
Yes, that is why they say that a picture is worth a thousand words
I am curious that you expect to have an audience while learning lines/lyrics. Ideally the performer should have memorised them by that stage … but I guess as a backup in the later rehearsals ?
Also wondering how you are thinking to do the hologram, if not simply reflected off a sheet of glass at an angle. Do you need the lyrics to be in 3D ? Are you thinking to play with a laser ? Hmmm, interesting reading the Wikipedia entries for Teleprompter and Hologram.
How big do you need the “touch sensitive rollable mat” ? Is this for standing on (which will need to be a lot more sturdy than a regular touch sensitive panel) ?
Hey there, @Ash320082, and welcome to the forums. Glad to have you here.
Holograms are probably beyond the scope of this forum, but we put that to the side for one moment, we can focus on the rest of your features:
What are the features of this project? This project features a base with a on and off switch, a battery and a speaker, it also features a projection device, at its full function I want it to be a hologram projection with all your lyric or lines.
From this, you’ve kind of skipped over the actual beating heart of the project (probably brain actually): the controller. No matter how you imagine building this, you’re going to need some form of microcontroller or small SBC actually managing the different functionalities. Since you’re wanting it to be controllable via app, you’re going to need something with wireless functionality.
What I would recommend starting with is a small SBC and a display, something like:
Building that should give you an idea of the complexities of syncing the text in line with music, outputting to a display, and learning how to build an app. Actually, I would say skip the app for now and just host a simple web server on the Pi Zero. It saves you having to learn App building until much later in the project.
Once you get an idea of how all those features fit together, then figure out the tech you will need to achieve something that feels suitably hologrammy (again, well outside my expertise there). Once you have all that working in concert, then you can think about making it portable.
