Tuesday, October 5, 2010

All Shook Up

To all my loyal RoboBuggy followers,

I apologize for the delay in updating the blog. Work has been busy for all of here at Alpha Epsilon Pi, but we're slowly getting in the swing of things.

A few weekends ago, Nate and I attempted to get better footage of a roll, with a better camera. So we spent the greater part of our Saturday Evening building a solid camera mount for the buggy to mount Nate's camera on.

Here it is:

Nate's Fancy Camera on Kamikaze

Nate adjusting the Camera

This mount was strong. The camera did not move a single inch! Unfortunately, in the end, this was a bad thing, as the footage we got of the roll almost made me throw up. The camera shook with every single bump in the road and it was impossible to see anything. Guess its back to the drawing board.

Also, I will be writing SURG grants this weekend to get money for this project! Not that exciting but I will update the blog when I finish!

-Alex

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  1. UnknownOctober 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM

    This was a massive problem with the original as well. At one point we considered filling the pushbar with concrete to change its resonance (though not an option here). In the end, tuning the camera height found a sweet spot with slightly less vibration that the algorithms could deal with.

    Modern image stabilized cameras might do better, but it is possible this is too much vibration even for them.

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