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Finished Programs / DONE: Photo Downloader Kiosk
« on: October 04, 2008, 12:36 PM »
EDIT: Link to the PhotoKiosk made by Skrommel and modded by me:
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/PhotoKiosk.exe
To the AHK file and other files (the exe extracts the images etc but if you want to play with the AHK here are the files)
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/
EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long. I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.
Hello,
My robotics team runs a tournament every year for younger kids. An idea of mine for this year's tournament is to have a continually running slideshow of pictures on one of the projectors. It would be great if I could have a computer set up with a media reader where people (coaches, spectators, etc) could insert a card and download their pictures to the computer to be immediately added to the slideshow. So, here's my idea:
a kiosk-like program that allows a user to download all or some photos from a memory card (I've got one of those read-all-card-types readers that maps to four drives) to a folder that I specify in a config file (probably on a networked computer e.g. \\mycomp\slideshow\) in a datetime-stamped folder (to avoid name conflicts) with a minimum of user effort. Kind of like one of those photo kiosks that can be found at Walgreens, etc, but much simpler. Just a spash screen, a photo-select screen for once the user has inserted a memory card, a copying screen, and a done screen. Or something.
I am a programmer, and if nobody is interested I will code this myself, so don't spend a lot of time on it. But, the members of this forum are much more talented than I am and so I'm sure you could whip something up easier than I could.
Thanks,
Nick
EDIT: I would also be happy if there is already a program which can do this. I had found xkiosk, but it is too complicated, since it is built for photo processing labs.
EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long. I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/PhotoKiosk.exe
To the AHK file and other files (the exe extracts the images etc but if you want to play with the AHK here are the files)
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/
EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long. I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.
Hello,
My robotics team runs a tournament every year for younger kids. An idea of mine for this year's tournament is to have a continually running slideshow of pictures on one of the projectors. It would be great if I could have a computer set up with a media reader where people (coaches, spectators, etc) could insert a card and download their pictures to the computer to be immediately added to the slideshow. So, here's my idea:
a kiosk-like program that allows a user to download all or some photos from a memory card (I've got one of those read-all-card-types readers that maps to four drives) to a folder that I specify in a config file (probably on a networked computer e.g. \\mycomp\slideshow\) in a datetime-stamped folder (to avoid name conflicts) with a minimum of user effort. Kind of like one of those photo kiosks that can be found at Walgreens, etc, but much simpler. Just a spash screen, a photo-select screen for once the user has inserted a memory card, a copying screen, and a done screen. Or something.
I am a programmer, and if nobody is interested I will code this myself, so don't spend a lot of time on it. But, the members of this forum are much more talented than I am and so I'm sure you could whip something up easier than I could.
Thanks,
Nick
EDIT: I would also be happy if there is already a program which can do this. I had found xkiosk, but it is too complicated, since it is built for photo processing labs.
EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long. I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.