PComp catchup. It's been a bit since I blogged anything here - Eddie, Chris and I are knee deep in our final project (due Dec. 12th) building a lo-fi digital camera. We have all been posting primarily to the Development Wiki. I've been doing some sketched tonight that will help clarify things in my head. So far, I think the main issues are going to be:
Programming! The processing for this application is going to be very complex. It's one thing to get brightness values to come across into the program and display on screen, but it's another thing to freeze those values on screen as one moves through the image. Also, since the values we have been getting from the photocells fluctuate quite a bit, we'll need to incorporate some averaging in there.
Frame construction Building the camera cell patch navigation system is going to be somewhat difficult.. at least to fine tune.
Multiplexors Though I have faith that we can figure them out, none of us have worked with multiplexors before. We have 64 analog ins, so they are definitely necessary. Tom went over them in class last week, which was helpful in that it gave us a foundation to work from.
Light focus Will we need a lens? remains to be seen.
In any case, we're pretty excited and things are definitely coming along on the project. I'll post my sketches when I get the chance.
We don't have class this week, but next Wednesday we'll be going over the readings which I haven't posted about on here. I'll need to pull together my responses to those, and put up my thoughts in the next day or so as well. A lot going on!
posted by Amanda @ 11/19/2007 05:15:00 PM,