On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:06 AM, porl sheean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i thought maybe i would give a brief description of what i would like > to achieve in the end so someone may have a better idea as to how to > go about it. > > my basic idea is to have a network of small devices that essentially > have audio inputs and/or outputs (mainly just stereo, but i can > imagine larger ones such as 8 in/out as well) and a network adaptor > which each connect to a main multi in/out device (or just a computer i > suppose) and synchronise to one clock source somehow. i have ideas as > to how interfaces for naming/assigning inputs/outputs etc should work, > but i am unsure as to the feasibility of the hardware of the devices > themselves. rather than getting someone to design a full custom > solution, i would like to be able to build on as much oss as possible. > netjack (at least the early versions of netjackmp) looks perfect, but > i'm unsure how the synchronisation etc would work. my resources are > extremely limited, but i really think i have some good ideas as to how > these things should work (user interface wise etc) and hope it is > possible.
One thing that comes to mind is the small gumstix modules. It may be a more expensive solution than you have in mind, but the advantage is that you get a *tiny* little computer pre-loaded with Linux. Add the audiostix attachment and you get stereo audio in/out. Or the roboaudio, which has an on-board Atmega, will give you some 10-bit analog inputs for sensors. But yeah, it's about $100 to $150 for the motherboard and $40 for the audiostix expander, so this might be out of your price range. Also add a few more $$ for the ethernet module. Anyways, worth looking into. I've played with them a bit for a sensor interface, and it was lots of fun, and way easier than building it myself. Never got around to trying the audio side of things. Steve _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev