EEVblog #227 - Light Scythe

Gavin "The Mechatronics Guy" in a presentation about his Open Source Light Scythe project:

[Chimpalimp]

That is freaking awesome! For once, I understood most of what he was talking about. I would love to build one of my own. Thanks for the inside view.

[Rob-Tipene]

nice use of an RGB Digital Strip, have been using these for a couple years now setup as matrixes and using media player transitions to make simple videos at christmas time, just found another use for them the rest of the year :-) and being a photographer the photographer tips you give are spot on, I would just add too that ISO setting can play an important role too meaning the sensitivity to light if you find your background too dark or too bright, you can change the ISO to correct the exposure

[backstabingliar]

At 22:25 what about accelerometers? Couldn't those be used for smoothing the picture?

[jerzmacow]

@Zwank36 I'm not saying that open source is bad, more so that it's become a bit of fad to have the name. It's pretty much implied, as I've rarely found a hobbiest project that's inherently closed source.

[bean]

You could use a small portable metronome to calibrate your walking speed.  

[zawzero]

@electrodacus It is existing. I have a version withouth the batterypack and a SD card. Phil is working on an Android app to pulse the stuff in realtime.

[novakinb]

google minipov3, it's basically smaller version thats super easy to make!

[zawzero]

@SajjadBro One strip. I have one of these built for about 1 year now.

[Zwank]

@jerzmacow well if the code is available for you to use, thats useful!

[pyroesp]

Turn your phones off damnit ....
Also, interesting stuff

[AntiProtonBoy]

Mac... pc... who gives a toss? Does the job either way.

[jerzmacow]

INB4 mac vs. pc flame war. I'm getting a little tired of people tacking opensource onto their projects... I'm not sure why