Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

I got an email back from Elphel pretty quickly - I forgot they're based in Russia, which will be waking up about now (12:52AM AEST). The news is not so good:

Paul,

That probably could be done and our FPGA code is GPL-ed so can be reused freely. On the other hand it can be a not-so-simple design and I do not have resources to implement it myself. So you can use our design, get some help/comments on the code, but that's basically all we can offer.

Andrey

Which means that I'll have to agitate somewhere - presumably on the CLUG list - to see if anyone's interested in a hardware project... I hate having ideas and not the skills to easily implement it; having to beg other people to do my work feels degrading...

I am, of course, extremely impressed at Andrey's work, and the fact that he's made it available under the GPL. I reckon he's pushed the development of Ogg Theora ahead massively by attempting such an implementation, and it's only going to get better as more people work on it. Maybe I sound too whiney and ungrateful above - it's really just the disappointment of having yet another (what I think is a) good idea and not being able to realise it quickly and easily. *sigh*