Staring at a screen of full of the tops of Lego pegs for hours... where 4 pegs fills an HD image and every spec of dirt looks like a boulder.. the slightest mis-tuning will drive you absolutely mad.
First I had to re-align the camera as the image sensor inside it was rotated by ~2 degrees. It was also tilted by about the same. I think I got that about as good as I can get it, so I glued it down. In the process I disconnected the sensor from the board a bunch of times while under power. Thankfully, I didn't destroy it.
I also had a Star Wars flashback as the camera flew down rows of mountainous Lego pegs at high speed... :)
Now.. I can tell you this.
My motion platform is reliable, aka... my errors are consistent.
And... it is still not tuned properly. :) Over 64mm, I'm off by about 1mm still.
I should be able to pick any 8mm multiple of X or Y now, and see the same image (as the Lego sheet I'm imaging, the pegs are all at 8mm spacing). They still shift a little.
Eventually, I hope to use this to automatically calibrate everything, but I'm not there yet.
Working on it..
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