Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity feature suggestion - digital oscilloscope trigger function

[Martyn S. <mar...@go...>]

Hi Tim

Interesting idea, will get back to you when I have more mainstream
connectivity after my hols.

TTFN
Martyn

2009/8/12 Timothy Marzullo <ti...@ba...>:
> Hi folks,
> I just sent an e-mail regarding getting Audacity to work on the OLPC (one
> labtop per child) project, but I want to suggest/discuss a larger idea.
> My colleague Greg Gage and I founded "Backyard Brains" as a startup to
> deliver low cost neuroscience to high schools, universities, and amateur
> scientists by building tools to record from the nervous system of insects.
> www.backyardbrains.com
> We have developed our own electronics, and we are using "Audacity" to view
> and record the data on labtops. This all works wonderfully on the PC and
> Mac, and we are currently trying to get it to work on the OLPC (re: previous
> discussions).
> You folks at Audacity have built a very powerful audio processing tool, but
> you have inadvertently (or maybe intentionally) also created a very valuable
> scientific tool! By accessing the microphone input of any standard labtop,
> we can feed almost any analog signal we want from any scientific instrument
> we build into your very easy to use and intuitive program (with a huge array
> of post-processing built in). And, If we need to, we simply save our data as
> wav files and then do any further post-processing in Matlab.
> The only thing Audacity needs to make it a killer scientific tool is a sort
> of "digital oscilloscope" mode with a trigger function. The youtube link
> below shows what neural data looks like in triggering mode.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope#Triggered_sweeps
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXRALyENrB0
> To do this would be a modification of the viewing options in Audacity. I do
> not know how difficult this is, but I wanted to throw it out there. We have
> been attempting to modify other programs to do this, but Audacity is just  a
> much more mature program. Let me know what you think! We have a big demo in
> a couple months at the largest neuroscience meeting in the world, and we'll
> be sure to give shout-outs to Audacity as much as we can.
> http://www.sfn.org/am2009/index.aspx?pagename=aboutTheMeeting_main
>
> Sincerely,
> Tim
> Tim Marzullo, PhD
> Backyard Brains, Inc.
> Neuroscience for Everyone!
> ti...@ba...
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