Ask HN: Generic platform for displaying attachments in forums?
In this particular light, there is a lot of diverse functionality available, and it's all open-hardware open-software so I'd like to provide a way for people to share their projects easily, including code, media, circuit schematics, etc. In particular, we'll be giving a good fraction of them away to hackerspaces and schools, so I'd really like to help people from far apart collaborate on projects.
I'd like to sort of assume that the end users are more creative than me and leave things open ended enough that they can share their projects in the form that they like without making it so general that there is no good experience. Like, I'd like images to post directly in-line, same with PDFs, etc. Should I be using google docs as a rendering engine?
For a brief summary of the project, it has an arduino core to make it really easy to reprogram it to do anything you might like with RGB+white at 12W and designed to look somewhat like stage lighting in form factor.
Mine will also have automatic audio responsive modes and the ability to expand to do DMX and wifi. It's got dip switches and extension ports easily accessible so hardware hackers can add on new sensors and things.
Basically, it's more functionality than I have the creativity to come up with all possible use modes for!
(short video of operation at http://youtu.be/Nu21KK0iyFU in ganzfeld mode and http://youtu.be/C_8hVSfFv10 in audio mode)