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Create and Process 360 degree video for Youtube

November 14, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

In this post I’m going to cover how to create 360 degree video and prepare it for uploading to Youtube. I’d like to cover SimpleCV, specifically the functions of dewarping the video. The video from Tinkernut made reference to this process. You may find this link useful in the setup of SimpleCV, https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV. He based his work off of Kathrine Scott’s work. She did an excellent write up on the process, http://www.kscottz.com/dewarped-panoramic-images-from-a-raspberrypi-camera-module/. The big caveat is that video is captured…

360 Video and Metadata

November 7, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction One of the more enjoyable things I like to do besides tinkering with electronics, computers, or programming is trail riding with my mountain bike. The trail system here in Seattle and King County is extensive and I still haven’t seen it all, even after many years of riding. One of the things that I had started doing early on was capturing the scenery with an action camera. My first camera was a modest 480p bullet camera that doubled as…

Tornado – DOS video game on Raspberry Pi

October 31, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Back in 1993, while in college, I purchased an Intel 486 computer. The intent was to save me the hassles of the computer lab. It was extremely convenient to be able to do my work on my schedule. As a consequence, I tinkered with the PC in my spare time. I had created the DOS 6.x / Windows 3.x install disk sets, at the suggestion of the sales agent. I eventually needed them. Breaking and rebuilding was a clumsy cycle…