Laser Guided Camera Panner

Hello everyone,

I have connected an old floppy drive to my computer's parallel port and I've have written a program to control its stepper motor. This stepper motor is attached to a camera and when it moves..it actually turns the camera. My program captures images from that camera and searches for the brightest pixel in its field of view (which is usually a laser dot in my case). After finding that pixel, it determines its position and moves the floppy drive stepper motor to turn the camera towards it. Check out the videos on my blog:http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2006/12/laser-guided-camera-panner_12.html

Hope you find it interesting..I'd love to hear your comments. :)

Ashish

[903 byte] By [AshishDerhgawen] at [2008-3-1]