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Slow reader.

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When I was young, we were fortunate that one of the classes we had to attend was learning to speed read. To have access to that software today can be very expensive. Here, we can sort of emulate that old software with a simple shell file program. You can also build a teleprompter so you can create your own sort newsreader setup. Then you can have your own news show so the video can be uploaded to say Youtube or the like. The code is very short and works extremely wel with short paragraphs. To invoke the software you will need the name of the file to be read and the delay to be used to determine the speed of the text to be displayed. You might want to start with .5 and then you can adjust as needed. $ ./asciitextrdr.sh  asciifile2bread .5 [code] #!/bin/sh # A program to slowly cat file or standard input. if [ "$1" ] ; then     file="$1" else     file="-" fi cat "$file" | while read c ; do echo  "$c" sleep  $...
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Simpler teleprompter setup?

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The teleprompter setup I built many years back ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-ghetto-Tele-prompter /) was a bit bulky, but works best for me. Decided to come up with a simpler setup that only required one reflector based on a cd case. But with this unit you need to have reversed text displayed. No problem. Create text in OfficeWriter. Export text to a pdf file i.e. test.pdf Get software. $ sudo apt-get pdfjam Reverse the pdf facing. $ pdffip test.pdf which generates test-flipped.pdf. Show the file in your document viewer and do your video. You will probably have more text that what I used. Update: In looking at some thing unimportant, I came upon another way to reverse the text by using html and a .css file. It is kind of kludgy, but it worked! HTML:  <html> <head>  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ga.css"> </head> <body> <div align="center">...
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Teleprompter update

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While back I have made a cheap teleprompter, but you had to use the internet to take advantage of it. This software would probably work great with a touchpad as it is basically a web page that does not take up nuch room. you can find more information at: http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-ghetto-Tele-prompter/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Example code: Teleprompter.html <html> <head> <style> body {      font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;      font-size: 2.4em;      line-height: 1.4;      background: #000;      color: #fff;      overflow: hidden; } #speech {      position: absolute; } p {      margin: .5em; } .slide {      text-align: center;      margin: 0; } </style...
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This and that...

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This sort of a summary of the projects we have done. (just some links). Do you really need an ereader? http://www.instructables.com/id/Ereader-is-optional-by-using-your-portable-music-p/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Ereader-is-optional-by-using-your-portable-music-p-1/ Every home needs a web server! http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-touchpad/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses-for-your-own-private-cloud/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Introduction-to-installing-web-apps/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Quicky-web-server-for-linux/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Quicky-web-server-for-MSWindows-XP/ Home automation basics: http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Automation-MSWindows-XP/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-beginning-home-automation-on-a-server/ Other: http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-ghetto-Tele-prompter/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Computerized-video-security-setup/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-up-a-computer-based-DVR-with-Mythtv-for-l...
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