Thursday, January 10, 2008

Coding4Fun: Laser Tracking Camera


I've finally finished creating Part 2 of my article on controlling stepper motors with a computer. This time I have built a laser tracking camera panner by extending Andrew Kirillov's motion detection code (with permission) to control the motor.

Now that I think of it, I've done lots of projects with lasers. And as a matter of fact, I'm working on another project with lasers, right now! I'll shoot some videos soon, so stay tuned. And till then, have fun building a laser tracking camera!

- Ashish

5 comments:

Antonio said...

Great job!
That's fun!

keep on projecting!

bye

Joel M. Pinto said...

when is your next article coming up??? Waiting for it...

Joel
joel_m_pinto@yahoo.co.in

Joel M. Pinto said...

hey ashish,

i have 3 usb ports in my 1yr old laptop but no parallel port :( .

so what should i do to have a parallel port in my computer?

i dont want to use expansion(its very expensive)

Thanks,
Joel M. Pinto
Gujarat, India
joel_m_pinto@yahoo.co.in

Joel M. Pinto said...

Hey i have a problem with capturing images from my webcam.
I use VB.

The way scott hanselman used in his article on C4F was to slow for getting a video by taking a picture in the timer(it first saves the file to your disk and then loads it again) so can you give me some advice on converting that 'myimage' (its defined as WIA.Imagefile) into a Image which can just be stuck on the picturebox so it might become a little fast or any other way to make it a smooth going video???

Thanks,
Joel
joel_m_pinto@yahoo.co.in

Aman said...

i know this dosen't really apply and my question is probably real dumb
i'm from mumbai doin FE Engg.
i know basic electronics properly like transistors ICs everything but microcontrollers.
i'm taking part in a techfest in coll.

it's sort of like an obstacle course

could you please give me some hack for a cheap RC car which could increase the maneuverability of the car and also something for the range and sensitivity

also which books do beginners in microcont. refer to and what do you start with PIC or intel

PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE.........

amanmahadeshwar@gmail.com