Greg Nuspel
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Location: Calgary, Canada
Registered: 15 Feb 2009
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My toy under construction
Posted: 18 Mar 2010 at 23:23 GMT
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Things are starting to look like a camera head now.
80-200 f2.8 D80
18-70 f3.5-4.5 D80
The upright support tube will be shortened once I figure out what works with my lenses. The basic design goes together pretty good, there are a few tweaks and changes that I'll be doing as testing goes on. The control system is next, most of it is worked out. I am going to try something radical and that is to use a www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440 as a front end to OpenMoco. I may see if www.gphoto.org/ will run on the board as well.
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Philip Warner
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Location: Round Rock, TX, United States
Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 1:21 GMT
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Greg,
That looks like a fun toy! Good job. I like the FriendlyARM Mini 2440 SBC with the touch screen. When do you think you'll have it running and taking pictures?
Phil
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Philip Warner
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Location: Round Rock, TX, United States
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 1:24 GMT
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Greg Nuspel said: The upright support tube will be shortened once I figure out what works with my lenses.
Having them a little long will make it's foot print a little smaller. The foot print grows larger as the camera moves closer to it.
The horizontal bars could be trimmed a little though.
Phil
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Greg Nuspel
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Location: Calgary, Canada
Registered: 15 Feb 2009
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 1:43 GMT
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I am thinking of hanging the controls off the horizontal bar balancing the rig some. I hope to have this one running soon my controller should arrive Monday, I may just run it off OpenMoco first as I figure out a good user interface.
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DennisS
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Location: Los Anglels, United States
Registered: 1 Sep 2007
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 4:54 GMT
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Way cool. Nice to see another home made professional level pano head. Looks like you have access to some CNC equipment?
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Smooth
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Location: Mount Panorama, Australia
Registered: 21 Jul 2004
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Henri Smeets
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Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Registered: 28 Nov 2006
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 at 12:20 GMT
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WOW, that looks amazing, solid and compact yet flexible setup!
Are you creating this for your own use or will it be a commercially available product?
How about a remote iPhone/iPodTouch interface including liveview feed 
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Greg Nuspel
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Location: Calgary, Canada
Registered: 15 Feb 2009
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Re: My toy under construction
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 1:37 GMT
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Presently it is for my own use. I have to crunch the numbers to see what it costs to produce since I now have all the programs proven. Oh no the dreaded iXXX I am hoping to have a simple bluetooth connection to start it. I have looked at Papywizard and may interface with that. I know nothing about writing apps and don't have the time to get into it.
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