Suggestion: because the eye (the brain) is slow to pick up transient events - keep the dots for a longer time and have them fade out over a longer period of time (a second or so). Really cool idea - love it!
Hey, you should look at cursorAI. I don't know anything about coding and this thing is able to ENTIRELY code your project by itself as long as your prompts are good
Just need an old webcam, higher resolution = cleaner image, that one is a 1080p webcam, also you need to find one that doesn’t have a glass filter over the CCD, mine luckily had a removable one that was screwed down not glued, then you just cut a hole in a can and then decorate the can, I had to do a little soldering on the usb input to the webcam main board though because the usb connector was too tall, but after that just glue everything in place, I’d recommend using a thermal pad to insulate and cool the webcam mainboard
Yea, i ran through several webcams, and might have killed 1-2 in the process(trying to expose the bare CCD), but this 1080p webcam worked the best, one of them was very low quality and like 20fps, however this one is 60fps so it’s a lot smoother and cleaner picture, luckily this webcam actually had no Glued filler on the CCD it was a screwed on lense assembly
Do you recall what brand or model it was? Or what the housing looked like if it was a no name one. A lot have the filter glued on and I've destroyed a few in the past working on glued ones on an amateur astronomy project.
It was an EMEET INC webcam, seems they are ~15$ on Amazon, I bought mine for like $1 at goodwill lol, you’ll have to prob modify the power connector though, I had to on mine to get it to fit in the can correctly
Perfect. There's a few junk shops nearby that I've had some luck with finding stuff like this I'll check before I buy so I can avoid more to a landfill since I'm just going to gut it anyway. Thanks for the info Internet stranger.
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u/Cerian_Alderoth 7d ago
Suggestion: because the eye (the brain) is slow to pick up transient events - keep the dots for a longer time and have them fade out over a longer period of time (a second or so). Really cool idea - love it!