Modular Pi Cam

Today was a good day (Ice Cube)

Tested these mics

Not really "tested" I plugged em and recorded video

There were so many good shots mmm the light was good

yeah... been getting this lately

I think it's pyaudio but haven't pinned down the reason

I went to a nice park as a result of the local one being closed, it was a great decision that place is way bigger though farther away but still not a bad drive

Today was an amazing day at a park I hadn't been to before, I can feel my arms still burning ha I was in the sun for so long

The segfault stuff kept happening but the systemd service would restart itself and the video/audio merge in general was fine

Few USB-related updates

Finally... don't have to sync external mics

Supports USB mic (at least 1, Lavalier) audio merged into mp4 video from h264

Also added mass storage transfer (don't have to use SFTP eg. FileZilla)

And with Delete All Files again don't have to SSH into it to remove files

Videos and PRs

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/modular-pi-cam/pull/17

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/modular-pi-cam/pull/18

The ml-hat-cam's gearing was beefy, so I gotta make it smaller, control all rings (3) and add linear stabilization (x-y).

It'll be hard because the cantilevered load (heavy lens/steppers)

I'm starting to envision the next stage as I use this camera more and more

More cameras...

For some reason the color yellow... is in my mind

And a flip display/camcorder style plus sliding rail stabilizer for the lens so videos look better... may make more sense to have an outside/full body gimbal but still. Because the sensor one also has to hold up lenses attached to it.

Oh yeah the other thing is small steppers that autofocus the lens. I've done some work with that (laplace).

I need to do some kind of stabilization in the future, the 1080P video is pretty usable

The vibration is brutal particularly on the higher mm lens

Really like this shot mmm

There were a lot of snakes out I saw at least 4

Idk what to call this but it's what cameras normally have ha, where you can see what you're recording.

I got some better shots

I have some code in progress now, not sure if I'll get it done today/soon.

Will address:

- USB file transfer (no wifi network needed eg. sftp)

- delete all camera/video files from menu choice

- reset battery from menu choice (vs. current percentage check)