A couple of projects for video INPUT/OUTPUT for Arduino:
- Arduino Eye Shield by David Chatting interprets PAL or NTSC video, and looks like you might be able to build one yourself (there is a schematic and some code)
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Video Experimenter by Nootropic Design can:
- Overlay text and graphics onto a video signal from a camera, DVR, DVD player, VCR or any other source of composite video.
- Capture low-res video image frames for display or video processing. Give your Arduino the gift of sight!
- Perform object detection for computer vision projects.
- Decode closed captioning or XDS (extended data services) data embedded in television broadcasts.
- Works with NTSC (North America) or PAL (rest of the world) television standards.
- Uses digital pins 2, 6, 7, 8, and optionally 9. Uses analog pin 2.
and it looks like you can buy or build.
- Finally, the Gameduino a “a game adapter for microcontrollers.” This is a new project that is seeking funding on kickstarter (only 6 days left to get in on it!), designed to build old-school games with your Arduino (think Super Nintendo old-school, not Atari 2600 old-school). The specs look pretty impressive, 400 x 300 pixels, 512 colors, sprites, etc.. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
