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Display Name:	natabat
Member Since:	11/18/09

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I built a photobooth for my sister's low budget wedding. I used an old Powershot A20, an Ubuntu machine, a 4x6 photo printer from Craigslist, and a USB panic button that I bought off eBay. A shell script got fired off when the panic button was hit that
1) used gphoto to take 4 photos
2) used imagemagick to stack them into 2 strips of 4
3) uploaded them to Flickr
4) sent them to the printer

Guests got a strip to keep and my sister and brother-in-law got one for their photo album.

It took a fair amount of Googling, a pretty good knowledge of Linux (installing packages and scripting), a lot of patience, and some jury rigging (for instance, I had to line a webcam up with the actual camera to get a live preview image), but everyone was very impressed with the results.

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2/10/10 1:09 AM

The Dell Zino isn't an ION machine, unlike the Acer and AsRock boxes. In fact, it's kind of an anti-ION -- Athlon processor and ATI graphics!

I'm looking at the AsRock. I like the low power consumption possiblities of the Atom processor, and I'm a Linux geek, so the Nvidia chipset is a must. However, for any kind of HD Flash video, I really need to wait for Flash 10.1 to come out -- it will include hardware acceleration to take the load off the processor.

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11/18/09 6:37 PM