Super interesting project and impressive engineering. It wasn't quite clear to me how he solved the problem with
> Their motors are designed for slow, dampened pans across a stage, not for tracking a jet moving at 300 knots. The mechanical and electronics latency is significant; if you simply tell the camera to “follow that plane,” by the time the motors react, the target has often moved out of the frame.
Is he able to move the motors faster than they are designed to be moved? Is this the __Control (PID + Feed-Forward Loop)__ fix?
I don't really buy this argument. What counts is angular motion as seen from the camera, not absolute speed.
In terms of angular speed, unless you have a helicopter flying super low, I doubt aircraft move significantly faster than a preacher or a teacher, which are the intended use case according to the article.
Yes! So I probably over-simplified a bit in the language there... it's not just the physical motors, but the control electronics and logic on the cam itself doing the interpolation of receive VISCA commands that reduce overall responsiveness. And that lack of responsiveness not just absolute speed that causes issues. I sort of lump that all into hardware limitations since it's not something I can directly configure.
I was recently evicted from my apartment in a city in Norway experiencing similar growth in short-term rentals. The rental on that apartment was around €750 (same for my roommate). Apparently, during high season in the winter similar apartments goes for ~€830 a night. High season is 3 months in the winter, but seemingly that is enough to outcompete longterm tenants.
Yeah, my bet is they are going downhill. Would love to know if anyone is archiving the work. I've contributed with a few samples over the years, and it't kind of annoying that this is now under Spotifys ownership.
I donate to Immich monthly, and I’m glad they managed to keep the project going and not paywalling any of their features, even under the influence of their new sponsor.
Lately I've really gotten into bouldering, and I keep looking for some open databases with outdoor crags. I've looked into multiple applications where users submit their own routes, and other users have to pay the app creator in order to access these routes.
Today I stumbled upon OpenBeta, which seems promising, however it currently seems to only contain US routes. I would love to get some discussion on alternatives.
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