Collaborate Disseminate
NASA has released the first HD 360-degree panorama taken by the Perseverance rover’s mast-mounted cameras since it touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021 . The composite image, which was captured on the third Martian day of the mission (Sol 3)… Continue reading NASA releases 360–degree panorama of Perseverance rover landing site
Opportunity spent its final months building this panorama of its location, which is now its gravesite. Continue reading NASA Releases Opportunity Rover’s Final Panoramic View of Mars
Chang’e 4 mission leads released landing footage and panoramic pictures on Friday. Continue reading China Releases Gorgeous New Footage of the Far Side of the Moon
Inspiration can strike from the strangest places. Unearthing a forgotten Melexis MLX90614 thermopile from his ‘inbox,’ [Saulius Lukse] used it to build a panoramic thermal camera.
[Lukse] made use of an ATmega328 to control the thermal sensor, and used the project to test a pair of two rotary stage motors he designed for tilt and pan, with some slip rings to keep it in motion as it captures a scene. That said, taking a 720 x 360 panoramic image one pixel at a time takes over an hour, and compiling all that information into an intelligible picture is no small …read more
The Amoreiras Tower, in Lisbon, Portugal, recently added a rooftop viewing area that is open to the public. The top of the tower is one of the highest spots in the city, and the viewing area gives an impressive 360º view of the surrounding area. However, the elevator to get to the top left a lot to be desired. It’s an interior elevator, and didn’t itself offer any view.
So, Artica, along with Schindler, were brought in to solve that problem. The solution was to mount displays on the interior of the elevator, in order to simulate a 360º panoramic …read more
Continue reading A Windowless Elevator with a 360º Panoramic View
