Category Archives: digital cameras hacks

Tracking Drone Flight Path Via Video, Using Cameras We Can Get

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Calculating three-dimensional position from two-dimensional projections are literal textbook examples in geometry, but those examples are the “assume a spherical cow” type of simplifications. Applicable only in an ideal world where the projections are made with mathematically perfect cameras at precisely known locations with infinite resolution. Making things work in …read more

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Highly Sensitive Camera Makes A Great Night Vision Scope

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Traditional military-grade nightvision gear has a history stretching back to the Second World War, relying on photomultiplier tubes to help soldiers see in the dark. Such devices have trickled down to the civilian market in intervening years, however other simpler techniques can work too. [Happy_Mad_Scientist] whipped up a simple nightvision …read more

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Making a 3D Printed DSLR Camera Mount Even Better

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We’d love to say that all of our projects worked perfectly on the first try, but the average Hackaday reader is a bit to experienced to buy a fib like that. The reality is, DIY projects rarely get everything right out of the gate. It takes some time to identify …read more

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The Game Boy Camera, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Pixels

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Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. In an age when there are more megapixels stuffed in the sensor of a smartphone camera than the average computer display can even represent, why would jagged images from a 20-year-old grayscale camera with pixels numbering in the thousands still grab attention? Maybe what’s …read more

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Proprietary Lenses Are No Problem With This USB Adaptor

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There was a time when a camera lens was simply a set of shaped pieces of glass in a tube, with a mount and an aperture. But as cameras have embraced electronics ever more, technology has found its way past the lens mount to the extent that all features of …read more

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How To Shoot A Great Project Video

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Creating projects is fun, but the real value, as far as the imaginary Internet points are concerned, is how well you show them off for the clout. Taking a few snaps is fine, but if you want to produce a quality video of your project, it pays to put some …read more

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Vizy “AI Camera” Wants to Make Machine Vision Less Complex

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Vizy, a new machine vision camera from Charmed Labs, has blown through their crowdfunding goal on the promise of making machine vision projects both easier and simpler to deploy. The camera, which starts around $250, integrates a Raspberry Pi 4 with built-in power and shutdown management, and comes with a …read more

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Bullet Time On A Budget With The Raspberry Pi

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Bullet time became the hottest new cinema effect after it burst on the scene in The Matrix (1999). Back then, the cutting edge special effects required serious hardware and serious processing power to do the job. These days, of course, things have moved along somewhat. [Eric Paré] is no stranger …read more

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Old Polaroid Gets a Pi and a Printer

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There’s nothing like a little diversion project to clear the cobwebs — something to carry one through the summer doldrums and charge you up for the rest of the hacking year. At least that’s what we think was up with [Sam Zeloof]’s printing Polaroid retro-conversion project.

Normally occupied with the …read more

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Hacking A Cheap Action Cam Into A Dashcam With A Microcontroller

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Repurposing commodity electronics is one of the true forms of hacking, and it’s always the simple little hacks that lead to big ones. [Everett] wanted to use a $20 GoPro clone as a dash cam, so he wired a microcontroller into it to automate some actions and make it practical. …read more

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