Seems to me that you have all the technology needed to turn this into a digital sheet music display. All you need is the ability to display .pdf files (available for Linux). Put sheet music on an SD card, go to the frame and set the slide show delay to automatically turn the pages of the music.
I found one product that does this; It's $1400 at Hammacher Schlemmer. How about drastically undercutting them on price while expanding your market? It's even small enough to fit on a music stand or piano, more cost effective than a tablet PC (which it really is).
Come on, if you guys have this, you could probably get it going in a few hours. A pretty good payback for gaining an entirely new and ripe market! Send me one and I'll give you consumer feedback.
A few questions
Great idea. Questions:
- Should there be settings to control the interval between pages?
- 8" will be too small for that purpose, right? A new look plus bigger LCD screen will dramatically increase the price.
I figured you have a slide
I figured you have a slide show function already, just set the delay you want and use that. Other possibilities are tapping the screen or connecting a USB foot pedal switch.
I scaled a sheet of music down to the screen size to evaluate. It is on the small side, but I think the screen size might work as is, in portrait mode.
The current size would work very well in the landscape situation if you could set it up scroll down at an adjustable speed as opposed to just turning scanned pages one at a time. This may require some different display software. I have not looked into the software available to display .pdf files under Linux. It may exist already. You could even add an audio & visual metronome function. I think this would be the best situation.