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| | ==Project Overview== | | ==Project Overview== |
| − | The Camelot project involves the stitching of 50+ synchronized video cameras to produce large, completely immersive videos/images. My involvement in this project is to reverse engineer how two GoPro camera's synchronize for stereoscopic recordings and extend this to N-number of cameras with custom hardware. | + | The goal of this project is to create a fix for the zspace's stereo display of content, which gets mixed up from time to time. Using additional hardware external to the computer, a fix can be made which determines if the screen is correctly initialized and displaying content with the proper stereo orientation. |
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| − | ===Milestones===
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| − | * Obtain an iPhone female-to-male (30-pin) connector with all pins exposed.
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| − | * Solder pins to custom iPhone connector and analyze communication between master and slave GoPro's.
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| − | * Determine logic used to initialize a slave GoPro from a master device.
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| − | * Reproduce this behavior with an Arduino unit to drive a slave GoPro from it (the Arduino Uno).
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| − | * Extend this logic to two cameras at the same time.
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| − | * Create a proof of concept with one master GoPro and two slave GoPro's.
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| − | ===Known Bugs/Issues===
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| − | * Why use a GoPro?
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| − | ** There is another capturing device that allows for synchronization between all cameras, but it requires a computer since it needs to be connected to one.
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| − | ** GoPro's are a lot smaller and, more importantly, are self-contained -- they don't need to be connected to a computer to function and save all data to their removable storage devices.
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| − | ** GoPro's are also a cheaper alternative to the other camera in question, which would significantly help save development costs for the Camelot project.
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| − | * GoPro availability
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| − | ** The version of the GoPro (Hero 2) being used for my proof of concept have been discontinued -- they are widely available on places like the Amazon Marketplace or eBay, however, which could help lower the project's cost.
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| − | ** The newer version of the GoPro's (Hero 3) are ultimately what we wish to extend this proof of concept to, but GoPro, themselves, haven't even released a synchronization cable for them yet, and using a sync cable from a Hero 2 causes the cameras to not function properly.
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| − | * Hero 2 Sync Cable
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| − | ** The connector is an active cable -- there is additional hardware inside the connector, itself. This needs to be analyzed to determine what needs to be reproduced on a per-camera basis and what signals simply need to be buffered and forwarded to additional cameras.
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| − | ** There is an EEPROM inside the connector on both the slave/master ends; all cameras in our GoPro 'network' would need a local EEPROM to interact with to fully emulate a slave connection.
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| | ===Developers=== | | ===Developers=== |
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| | '''Project Advisor''' | | '''Project Advisor''' |
| − | *Jurgen Schulze | + | * Jurgen Schulze |
The goal of this project is to create a fix for the zspace's stereo display of content, which gets mixed up from time to time. Using additional hardware external to the computer, a fix can be made which determines if the screen is correctly initialized and displaying content with the proper stereo orientation.
