Can the Stamp do this?
Buck Rogers
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Hello!
Yesterday from Micro Center in Brooklyn I bought two of these, adafru.it/3202 the website describes the thing as what's typically found inside a keychain fob camera. Right now I have it connected to a small breadboard, and power supplied via these items, a 150mAH LiPo and a switched extension cable, and matching two-pin JST connector on the breadboard. It is switched into single photo mode or video mode using a momentary switch wearing a white cover. (That came from a collection of items originally sold by SainSmart for the Arduino developer.) All of those items were originally sold by Adafruit, either directly or via the dealer Micro Center.
What I'd like to do, is setup a Stamp to switch on the device, and when the time is right take, say six photos, no video, and then end. I believe I have worked out how to have the device switched on, that would happen using a particular solid state switch, the CD4016 or CD4066, whichever works best.
This is the photo style it takes
For those of you who have not met me, that's me wearing a beard, suffice to say it was my cats ideas.
Suggestions please group.
Yesterday from Micro Center in Brooklyn I bought two of these, adafru.it/3202 the website describes the thing as what's typically found inside a keychain fob camera. Right now I have it connected to a small breadboard, and power supplied via these items, a 150mAH LiPo and a switched extension cable, and matching two-pin JST connector on the breadboard. It is switched into single photo mode or video mode using a momentary switch wearing a white cover. (That came from a collection of items originally sold by SainSmart for the Arduino developer.) All of those items were originally sold by Adafruit, either directly or via the dealer Micro Center.
What I'd like to do, is setup a Stamp to switch on the device, and when the time is right take, say six photos, no video, and then end. I believe I have worked out how to have the device switched on, that would happen using a particular solid state switch, the CD4016 or CD4066, whichever works best.
This is the photo style it takes
For those of you who have not met me, that's me wearing a beard, suffice to say it was my cats ideas.
Suggestions please group.
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BTW, on my MacBook, the photo you posted just looks black.
-Phil
Oh and I forgot, power would be supplied separately. Common ground would be used. The switch would simply turn things on. Another would just trigger the photo taking cycle.
Of course I could use a pair of matched SSR devices......
Mike
-Phil
The same perception here (mostly dark image), using both IE 11 and Firefox 68, under Windows 8.1.
Initially, I've attributed my difficulty in distinguishing any details to a recurring fever, due to another slowly-recovering pneumonya I've been suffering by the last few days, but, after I saw Phil Pilgrim and msrobots comments, about experiencing the same problem, I decided to try a very lean-mean image processing, using IrfanView 4.53.
Despite the poor quality of final results, at least I can see a face, wearing a beard, and glasses... Perhaps you, I presume!
Henrique
Given the fact that the camera is almost the same as the ones found on most cheap phones, I suspect it is the processing hardware attached. Next time around I am considering the hardware to try and do stuff with it.
Of course AC you did forget in your list a very important individual, a cat. He wandered inside looking for a box, and a place for a nap, and food.
Anyway.... Next step is to find out if a three pin JST connector that Adafruit does sell via the website will fit the one on the device. And of course to figure out how to write the code to make things work....
Okay...... Phil what was the one you were using? Thank you @Cluso99 I figured that would happen because of the room lighting, these things are sold at deeply discounted cost.... That is the assembled ones are. these are $12.99 from Micro Center for Adafruit, who sells them for $12.50.
-Phil