Camera Panorama robot head (panograph)

Step 13 Results and Further development

"Results"

I've posted a handful of panorama's created by this rig on a very recent holiday in north wales. I was more in the business of enjoying my holiday than experimenting with the rig. However, hope you enjoy the results http://www.wizfamily.co.uk/album/panorama

nb you'll need a HDView addon to view these images. If using firefox, download the addon, close firefox, run the downloaded file before restarting firefox.

Here the rig was set to take 5 pictures in the horizontal & 4 in the vertical. If the rig code was set to step much finer & the camera is set to a greater zoom setting, the result will be much finer (more detailed)

"Further Development"

Probably the most pressing is to do more work to eliminate the electrical noise generated by the servo motors as previously mentioned. I tried to introduce a 'camera steady' pause after each move step, which did not work out.

I've suggested on CHDK forum for the SDM firmware directly interact with the rig eg set panorama extreme positions. (At the moment this is fixed in code) Keep your eyes peeled.

Improve/ replace gear bearing mechanism.