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It's supposed to read between 0-50 Ohms (full-empty). But before it was cleaned it read from ~20-150 Ohms and not very smoothly. AFter it was cleaned with 1000 grit sandpaper and areosol electronics cleaner it read the appropriate range and smoothly. Hopefully this makes my fuel gauge behave itself.
Interface-module with timer and counter functionality for up to four light barriers, one measuring microphone, movement sensor, falling sphere apparatus or other devices with TTLcompatible signals. Optionally anexternal trigger device can be used (switch, starter system for motion track, ...). The measured values of the sensor can be transmitted with the Cobra4 Wireless manager and the Cobra4 Wireless-Link by radio or with the USB-Link to the PC. All Cobra4 sensor-units are quickly connectable through a secure and reliable plug-in / lockable connection.
Interface-Modul zur zeitlichen Erfassung der Schaltsignale und Signalpegel von bis zu vier gleichzeitig anschließbaren Lichtschranken bzw. einem Messmikrofon, Bewegungsaufnehmer, Kugelfallgerät oder anderen Geräten mit TTL-kompatiblen Signalen. Optional kann ein Gerät zur externen Triggerung angeschlossen werden (Schalter, Startvorrichtung Demorollenfahrbahn). Die Sensor-Unit kann an den Cobra4 Wireless-Link, den Cobra4 Mobile-Link oder den Cobra4 USB-Link durch einen sicheren und zuverlässigen Steck-Rast-Verschluss angeschlossen werden.
The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.
Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.
Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.
This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.
The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.
This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.
By Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to Shirley Madill curator who invited these works to Toronto for Nuit Blanche
Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.
Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.
Thanks to Malcolm Levy who invited the production of three more Paparazzi Bots for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010
Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project.
Shot in Incheon - Muuido in the distance...
Lesson learned: don't wear jeans, and have ample weather protection for my camera because an umbrella is another piece of equipment to fumble around with in the wind and rain.
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My local wine store just installed automatic doors. The black rectangular device in the middle at the top of the doors senses movement, then opens the doors.
PS - Pulse sensor can detect a state change of a relay output. It may also be used as a pulse counter. Pulse sensor is over the air configurable and flexible to be used in various applications.
* Energy metering for households, buildings, businesses etc.
* Burglar alarms
* Home and building automation
* Remote monitoring
* Condition monitoring
The IR Range Sensor is a great way to add range detection to robotic projects that use Cerebot™ boards. The sensor detects reflective objects 10 to 80 cm away.
The sensor connects to the ADC found on all Cerebot boards. The cable maps the output pins to a 3-pin connector. The yellow wire is for the analog output signal. The pin should be connected to the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) on your microcontroller. The red wire is the Vcc power supply to the sensor and is diode-protected against reverse polarization. The black wire should be connected to the ground of the ADC.
These are the sensors placed on the body that enable the motion data to be captured. They have velcro on the other side and are worn at the joints.
I have been reading up on my photoshop skills. I have always found tweaking landscapes intuitive, but pictures of people another matter entirely. Here are some early results.
You can see the original here.
I would like to know what anyone thinks of this please.
Lighting: I used and ebay wireless trigger to fire my Metz Mecablitz CL3 flash into a silver umbrella. The Metz was on auto with its sensor aimed at me and set to ISO200 and f/11 to match the exposure settings of my camera. The flash was placed 0.5m to camera left.
I like to think I keep my lighting simple yet effective.
Pictured: Antonio Mendoza (President of Balluff Mexico), Joe Kempo (Balluff Inc. Southeast Area Sales Manager), and Kent Howard (President of Balluff, Inc.)
The auto levels or auto contrast shows you a lot of dust which is there but would never be seen in a real photo. So it may bee useful to compare cleaning methonds but does not make much sense in determing if your sensor is clean enough for real photographic use. In the high contrast version Its difficult to distinguish between dust that is small enough to be invisible in real photos and dust that can end up beoming visible. For that I would take a photo at f16 or whatever is the smalles aperture that you intend to use in your photography. And another at f8. Anything that is visible at f8 has to be removed.
I propose the following test procedure to get comparable photos which show the dust well: Take the Canon 18-55 kit lens if you have it as it provides f38 at 55 mm. You get this with aperture priority. Then set the lens to manual focus at infinity. With this you take an out of focus macro of a sheet of paper or a white door. With this setting you get every spec of dust that has a chance to be seen on photos and quite a few that will never be seen on a real photo.
I tried a simple and cheap wet cleaning method for the first time. It works pretty well but it might be bad if you end up having quartz particles on the sensor.
Up to now I used a brush which did more rearranging than removing dust particles and occasionally left a hair behind.
Plastic water flow sensor from broiltech made by food grade plastic and withstand up to 120 deg c temperature
Motion sensor sink, it makes the building green because it saves water. People cant just leave the sink running, the motion sensor only allows the water to turn on when hands are in front of the sensor.
Here's a good example of some accumulated sensor dust! I've had this camera since 2008 and have used it on and off. I've only recently got back to using it heavily and discovered some spots on many but not all photos. After a bit research I found that it was dust on the sensor. I'm about to have a go at removing it myself with a blower. Haven't used the blower since last autumn when the leaf litter in the driveway was really bad...
I like CCD sensors (nowadays, you'll find CMOS sensors almost exclusively in digital cameras of any description). I also like old cameras, which in the case of digital cameras doesn't really mean "old", it just means that the makers have issued a "new and improved" model where they managed to cram ever more pixels onto an ever smaller sensor and use ever more software on ever more powerful processors to filter our the inevitably resulting image noise.
Fujifilm for some time fought the trend towards CMOS in its pocket digital camera lineup and invested quite a lot of brainpower into improving the CCD before they too gave up and joined the CMOS crowd. Not because CMOS is better, but because it is cheaper. One of their last CCD models, and one that was well-received, was the F31fd in 2007.
I recently obtained one and have been shooting hundreds of pictures with it. Here are some.
It's equipped with a 6 MP sensor. That was quite a lot for a compact camera in 2007. In my opinion, 6 MP is quite enough. I'd prefer six good, honest Megapixels over many of today's overwrought sensors.
So here is what I managed to squeeze out of the F31fd.
The verdict: It's not bad; I've seen worse. But:
- The images simply are not sharp. They are not sharp. That is not a matter of resolution. The camera just doesn't make sharp images .This really is my major gripe.
- There definitely is an issue with chromatic aberration (colour fringes). You see it everywhere to varying extents where there is strong contrast. That happens not to be the case in most of these examples. But it is a problem.
- I found I really have to work hard towards a decent image quality with this camera. That in itself is not a problem. Many of my cameras are like that - the ones I like most. But I do suppose that most pocket camera users have the expectation that their camera will simply produce good pictures when they point it at something and press the shutter button, but that is not the case.