Just got the firewire camera in. 640x480, very nice picture. I managed to scrape off most of the IR filter, and I found some exposed color film negative to use as a visible light filter. I suspect I will need to muck with it more at Saturday house.
-Daniel On Apr 6, 8:37 am, Crusoe <[email protected]> wrote: > So we have 2 solutions for image capture. Security cameras, and the > firewire webcam > > RRegio: I think the Celeron box you have should be able to run the > image processing/capture adequately. > > So all we need is the mirror. > > On Apr 5, 11:17 pm, Crusoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Meh, my laptop can run the software just fine. I have a firewire > > webcam coming in. But yeah, we can try the security cameras as well if > > Ryan or someone can find a capture card. > > > Also, Ryan brought along these real cool microwave-based motion > > detectors. All they need is power, and they output a signal on 2 wires > > when they detect motion. Someone with a voltmeter and basic electronic > > knowledge can probably figure it out. > > > The Dec box was powerful in it's day, but my notebook may be faster > > now. > > > -Daniel > > > On Apr 5, 4:19 pm, Phil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm seeing a 65bit dec alpha box going by on freecycle: "Working, > > > loaded with 64-Bit Windows NT(!). Floppy, CD, and Zip drives. No > > > monitor, accessories or power cord." No idea how it stacks up, but > > > hey, free box. > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > so those of you who were at the meeting yesterday know we got a > > > > prototype of the reactable semi-working. so in order to actually get > > > > it working in a respectable fashion we need a few things. an > > > > appropriately sized mirror (about 15" x 15"), and a computer capable > > > > of running the software for image capture and analysis. i have a > > > > computer we can use for this purpose, however if anyone has something > > > > better (its needs to have at least one available PCI slot for the NTSC > > > > capture card) the computer i have is running win xp using a intel > > > > celeron d 3.06 ghz with 1-2 gigs of ram its a blank machine so it'll > > > > run pretty quick however we may need a bit more juice than that. so if > > > > anyone can bring something better i can just slot the capture card > > > > into it. any help will be appreciated. > > > > > -Ryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
