I am blown away at what you and your team are doing, I'm pretty excited about it! Amazing work! I'm a big fan of J5 as well.
Finding an extension for the ribbon cable on the camera is definitely possible. I haven't tested it myself to see how such an extension will effect the image quality but I have a feeling it will work.
What you'll be looking for is a : 24 pin ffc ribbon cable extension
I've noticed several products appear on a google image search but I'll leave it up to you to find one that will fit the form factor you want. Do keep in mind that the camera's ribbon is flexible and can be carefully *bent to fit a 90 degree angle.
you look and sound incredibly familiar and I am wondering if we have met.
I know physical location isn't important for this kind of thing in our digital world, but I would love to work on the software side of this project if you want help with ARC and software/network design. My builder skills are junk, but my ARC skills are pretty good.
Jeremie, Thank you for the specific information! That puts me on the correct path now. Just need to find a short one, a few inches long at the very most. Happy to hear we have yet another J5 Fan within the Forum!
Alan, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Thanks for the offer, I'm going to need all of the help I can get....LOL!
Williamsport is pretty far from anywhere I frequent, but not Too far away. I am in the DC suburbs in Maryland, so I would be mostly helping remotely, but would love to come see Johnny 5 when you /we get it operational.
You asked, "Just curious, where are you located? you look and sound incredibly familiar and I am wondering if we have met."
Yea, you may have bumped into me. I was really into the DIY "Clone Yourself" Community some years back. About 12 or so of them escaped one night and every now and again somebody spots "me" somewhere I have never been!
I look forward to collaborating with you on the project! Shoot me an Email [email protected] and I'll give you my Skype contact information if you want to Video chat sometime.
I guess the first thing I need to do is get Windows 10 installed on my laptop, Streamline it and get rid of any Windows 10 "features" that are not absolutely necessary in order to run the EZ-B software as efficiently as possible. Laptop is Samsung with Intel i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz with 8GB of Ram. Should do the trick as a suitable PC testing platform for now.
Here is the link for controlling the EZ-B via USB instead of WiFi:
https://synthiam.com/Community/Tutorials/76
Alan
Thank you both for your help!
That's awesome Terry! You are welcome! I'm glad we could help.
This will encourage me to dust off my own J5 I started!
Welcome to the forums Terry!
I am blown away at what you and your team are doing, I'm pretty excited about it! Amazing work! I'm a big fan of J5 as well.
Finding an extension for the ribbon cable on the camera is definitely possible. I haven't tested it myself to see how such an extension will effect the image quality but I have a feeling it will work.
What you'll be looking for is a : 24 pin ffc ribbon cable extension
I've noticed several products appear on a google image search but I'll leave it up to you to find one that will fit the form factor you want. Do keep in mind that the camera's ribbon is flexible and can be carefully *bent to fit a 90 degree angle.
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Terry,
Just curious, where are you located? 2 reasons.
you look and sound incredibly familiar and I am wondering if we have met.
I know physical location isn't important for this kind of thing in our digital world, but I would love to work on the software side of this project if you want help with ARC and software/network design. My builder skills are junk, but my ARC skills are pretty good.
Alan
Jeremie, Thank you for the specific information! That puts me on the correct path now. Just need to find a short one, a few inches long at the very most. Happy to hear we have yet another J5 Fan within the Forum!
Alan, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Thanks for the offer, I'm going to need all of the help I can get....LOL!
Williamsport is pretty far from anywhere I frequent, but not Too far away. I am in the DC suburbs in Maryland, so I would be mostly helping remotely, but would love to come see Johnny 5 when you /we get it operational.
Let me know what I can do to help.
Alan
Hi Alan,
You asked, "Just curious, where are you located? you look and sound incredibly familiar and I am wondering if we have met."
I look forward to collaborating with you on the project! Shoot me an Email [email protected] and I'll give you my Skype contact information if you want to Video chat sometime.
I guess the first thing I need to do is get Windows 10 installed on my laptop, Streamline it and get rid of any Windows 10 "features" that are not absolutely necessary in order to run the EZ-B software as efficiently as possible. Laptop is Samsung with Intel i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz with 8GB of Ram. Should do the trick as a suitable PC testing platform for now.
Thanks, Terry.