AGASP -- 'Aerial Gigapan(TM)' Arduino Servo Platform

[dwblair]

Background

Developing an inexpensive, open-source kit for reliably tilting and panning an aerial (e.g., kite-based) camera in order to generate photos that can be nicely stitched together into a panorama.

It may simply be an open source hardware version of something like this:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otFKsJ7_wbM
• http://vp-systems.eu/cr-wifi.jpg
• http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/4254

Related documents

• Google doc for brainstorming applications of this and related platforms:

[dwblair]

USB Host Shield:

• On Sparkfun: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9947
• How to: http://www.circuitsathome.com/arduino_usb_host_shield_projects

[Fastie]

Here is an Instructable for an RPi based time-lapse dolly which might share some features with AGASP: http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-powered-time-lapse-dolly-RasPiLapse/

[dwblair]

Thanks Chris -- great link! I'm finally back in Amherst; an update on the Arduino-based doohickey that Ben put together should be coming up soon ...

[dwblair]

Arielle sent a link to parsing SimpleKML -- in preparation for acquiring GPS and sensor data on an aerial rig:

http://simplekml.readthedocs.org/en/latest/gettingstarted.html#quick-example