Video – Camera – Imaging Projects

Video Project Development in the Midst of an Impromptu Online Semester

Video Project Development in the Midst of an Impromptu Online Semester

Receiving robot parts in the mail was an unexpected conclusion to the Winter 2020 semester for students. However, when faced with a unique situation, innovative solutions were required, and the instructors of EECS 373: Introduction to Embedded System Design rose to the challenge. With the sudden transition to online learning in March due to the […]

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Logical Structure Block Diagram

Infrared Camera on the PIC32

Introduction The purpose of this project was to create thermal images displayed on the TFT screen of the PIC32 using data inputted through a thermal camera. A thermal image is an image where the colors are representative of the amount of heat radiated by that location. We used a FLIR Lepton Camera that takes frames

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Drone Framework 1

Autonomous Drone

Introduction The main goal of my project was to add autonomous flight capabilities to a simple drone framework. I have seen many projects in the past which attempt to develop a flight controller for a drone. While the theory behind this is rather simple, it can be hard to acheive great results in practice. Rather

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To the left can be seen an example of the euler angle scheme for a plane. To the right can be seen a top down view of our quadcopter with the arms labeled as mentioned

3-DOF Self-stabilizing Quadcopter Frame or: How We Learned To Stop Trying and Not Build the Drone

Introduction We created a 3 rotational degree of freedom quadcopter frame. The result was so that when placed on the small surface area of roughly a finger tip, the quadcopter can maintain its stability and recover from perturbations. The four motors increase and decrease in speed according the size and direction of the disturbance so

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LEGO Nikon IR Remote

LEGO Nikon IR Remote

(You can skip the paragraph)My sister has a Nikon D60 camera and is an active photographer. She had been begging for a remote control for the camera and this particular model doesn’t have the option of wired remote, which would have been easier to make myself. The original ML-L3 remote costs something around 40$ in

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