Bullet Time Camera - Revision history

Ian: /* Ideas for Improvements */

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‎Ideas for Improvements

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‎Overview

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‎Ideas for Improvements

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‎Ideas for Improvements

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‎Software Stack

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‎Startup

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‎Shutdown

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‎Shutdown

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 *Continuous Video to avoid timing issues
 *Clamps to mount lights to frame
-*Move to POE (power over ethernet) - for example, 3 of [https://www.amazon.com/BV-Tech-Port-Switch-Ports-Uplink/dp/B005GAATOG these switches] ($73 at amazon), and 24 of [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDLUSE7/ these adapters] ($10.89 at amazon - need to find something less expensive)
+*Move to POE (power over ethernet) - for example, 3 of [https://www.amazon.com/BV-Tech-Port-Switch-Ports-Uplink/dp/B005GAATOG these switches] ($73 at amazon), and 24 of [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDLUSE7/ these adapters] ($10.89 at amazon - need to find something less expensive) New find: AliExpress - $75.04 for an 8-port POE switch and all the cables. (So $300 to get 4 so that we have a spare...)
 *Use the new [https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piserver/ Raspberry Pi PiServer] to reduce the need for SD Cards by using PXE "pronounced pixie" booting
 ** We talked about using one of the small donated computers - disk space will be an issue, as you need to have enough disk space for each OS image (yikes!)

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 =Hardware=

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 *Move to POE (power over ethernet) - for example, 3 of [https://www.amazon.com/BV-Tech-Port-Switch-Ports-Uplink/dp/B005GAATOG these switches] ($73 at amazon), and 24 of [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDLUSE7/ these adapters] ($10.89 at amazon - need to find something less expensive)
 *Use the new [https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piserver/ Raspberry Pi PiServer] to reduce the need for SD Cards by using PXE "pronounced pixie" booting
 *Use some nature of computer vision to help with aiming
 *Make props for photos

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 =Todo=
 *Remove hard coded paths from source
 =Ideas for Improvements=
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 *Make a black box for kids to stand on - or for women to put their purse / phone in
 *Switch the control app from MacOS to a Raspberry Pi

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:47, 15 January 2018
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	*Make props for photos		*Make props for photos
	*Make a black box for kids to stand on - or for women to put their purse / phone in		*Make a black box for kids to stand on - or for women to put their purse / phone in
		+	*Switch the control app from MacOS to a Raspberry Pi

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 *The control application is written in Swift and runs in Xcode
 *The control scripts are run from a mac terminal window
 =Hardware Setup=

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 ==Startup==
-*start all the webservers (one per pi) using the run-server.sh script
+*start all the webservers (one per pi) using the [https://github.com/benrigas/BulletTimeControl/blob/master/run-server.sh run-server.sh] script
 ==Taking photos==

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 ==Shutdown==
-*Turn on all the lasers with the turn-on-lasers.sh script
+*Turn on all the lasers with the [https://github.com/benrigas/BulletTimeControl/blob/master/turn-on-lasers.sh turn-on-lasers.sh] script - since the lasers go off when the pi shuts down, this lets you confirm shutdown of each pi
 *Shutdown all the pis with the [https://github.com/benrigas/BulletTimeControl/blob/master/shutdown-pis.sh shutdown-pis.sh] script