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Decoding Closed Captioning Data

Difficulty Level = 8 [What’s this?] How Does Closed Captioning Work? Closed captioning is the technology used to embed text or other information in an NTSC television broadcast (North America, Japan, some of South America). It is typically a transcription of the...

Arduino Computer Vision

Difficulty Level = 5 [What’s this?] The Video Experimenter shield can give your Arduino the gift of sight. In the Video Frame Capture project, I showed how to capture images from a composite video source and display them on a TV. We can take this concept further...

TV Blaster

Difficulty Level = 3 [What’s this?] The Video Experimenter shield gives you new ways to interact with your TV. How many times did you wish you could blast someone or something on your TV screen? Now you can! This project lets you control a laser sight using a...

Text and Graphics Overlay on Video

Difficulty Level = 2 [What’s this?] The Video Experimenter shield makes it easy to overlay text and graphics onto any composite video signal. Any source of composite video should work — video camera, VCR, DVD player, DVR, cable box, etc. Video Experimenter...