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roadknightlabs
Joined: 07 Sep 2006
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Location: San Francisco, CA.
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| Posted: June 21, 2008, 10:42 am Post subject: Create-based CamBot |
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Hi all,
I haven't posted here in a while. I've been too busy hacking my Create :)
Here's my take on a "CamBot". It's basically a tripod mounted on a Create with some sonar sensors and a pan-tilt video sender unit on top. The tripod doesn't completely eliminate wobble, but it is more resistant to it than a monopod I think. It also lets me swap out cameras, from, say, the video-sender unit to an IP-based webcam or anything that uses a standard tripod-mount screw.
I've put up details on the design and build on my blog here |
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vic7767
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Location: Louisiana
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| Posted: June 21, 2008, 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| roadknightlabs, you performed some serious work on your Create. Great Job ! |
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roadknightlabs
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| Posted: June 22, 2008, 11:13 am Post subject: |
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vic7767 wrote: roadknightlabs, you performed some serious work on your Create. Great Job !
Thanks!
That isn't technically "my" Create. It actually was a comission piece for a local science fiction convention here in the Bay Area that wanted a CamBot to wander around and do video and stills of the activity and events going on @ there. It was a lot of fun and gave me some ideas on how to improve things on my own Create. [/url] |
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vic7767
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| Posted: June 22, 2008, 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| So you're the one that fixed that guy up. I saw the posts on the Create forum about a fella needing some help with making a Create do that. That's still some nice programming. |
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