{"id":2546,"date":"2019-04-09T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:28:44","slug":"built-a-few-more-beacons-and-tested-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/04\/09\/built-a-few-more-beacons-and-tested-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Built a Few More Beacons and Tested IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I built a few more beacons to play with last night. I’ve got some CR2023 battery holders that are smaller than the AA cell battery clips and have integrate power switches that I’m using for these. The red and blue LEDs work as expected (though they look dimmer to my eye than the white one on the first version we built).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I put together an IR LED based beacon as well (though without the diffuser as I’m not sure the diffuser plastic is transparent at 970 nm). I’ve demonstrated that the cameras I’ve got can see the IR LEDs on a remote control, even with their IR filters intact. I could see that the IR LED was on, but its brightness was much less than the brightness of the visible light LEDs so no real advantage to going with IR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also finished updating my RPi machines to the ‘scratch’ OS image and am close to having all of them built for OpenCV libraries. Once I get the last machine loaded up, I expect to switch back to one of the Ubuntu NUC machines and write some code to read from cameras and process the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attaching LED information for easy later location…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building simple mo-cap beacons. Setting up RPi systems. Concluded that IR isn’t particularly useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-capture","category-projects","category-sandbox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-F4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}