1 Introduction 1.1 Acknowledgement We would like to thank Dr. Thomas Daniels for the assistance in researching, developing and guiding usthroughout the two semesters we have worked with him. He has been an amazing resource as weworked through challenges on the project. We appreciate all the time and effort that Dr. Daniels has putinto our …
Running a camera studio is a complicated affair from pretty much every angle. Not only is the camera gear expensive but the rest of the studio setup takes care and attention down to the lighting as well. When adding multiple cameras to the mix, like for a television studio, the level of complexity increases exponentially. …
Phillips Hue light synced to a TV image through a webcam or other input, providing ambient light around the TV the same color as on screen. A recent trend in televisions has been the addition of ambient lights behind the screen that is synchronized with the action on the screen. After adding some Phillips Hue …
We regret to admit this, but we completely missed the fact that Windows 10 turned five years old back in March. Granted, things were a little weird back then — at least it seemed weird at the time; from the current perspective, things were downright normal then. Regardless, our belated congratulations to Microsoft, who, like anyone looking …
How do you organize your stock of components and modules? If an unruly pile of anti-static bags and envelopes from China stuffed into a cardboard box sounds familiar, then you need help from [Dimitris Tassopoulos]. He’s organized his parts into drawers and created a database, then linked it via an ESP8266 and a string of addressable …
Smart light that turn on at noon when anyone pass in street and turn off at morning also check its state and report if it need to be fixed. Story Overview When I was on my way on a desert road I found lot of lamps switched on in the morning and some of these …
A Windows 10 IoT core application that switches on an LED based on digital light sensor reading. Story It took me some time to figure out reading the status of the Digital Light Sensor is straightforward and it simply depends on reading the GPIO value! The idea of the project is very simple, just switch …
Introduction This tutorial shows how to put together a sound visualizer that I created, during my time in the SparkFun HIR program. The end goal for the project was to have a sound reactive LED belt buckle. To accomplish the task of sound visualization, a Raspberry Pi drives and communicates with a Pixel Board over USB. …
Introduction Note: This tutorial was originally written for the FLiR Lepton [KIT-13233]. However, the FLiR Lepton 2.5 with Radiometry should function the same. When our team found out that we’d be testing a Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) camera, there were two words that we couldn’t stop saying: Predator Vision. That’s right, we were finally going to …
Introduction This guide is a follow up to the first write up I did for my participation in the SparkFun HIR program. This guide shows how to setup a music visualizer for PCs/laptops. It uses an RGB LED panel to display the music visualization. It plays MP3s and is Java powered. This project differs from the first one …
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