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Kickstarter Crowd-Source Funding Launch

By John On October 26, 2012 · Add Comment
    Just a little more than twenty-four hours ago fotomote launched on Kickstarter, a crowd-source funding site. We’ve got an initial metric on how fotomote will be received and we’re impressed.
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Kickstarter Video Production II

By John On October 9, 2012 · Add Comment
It wasn’t long after the fun of selecting music for the Kickstarter video had worn off that we realized it was time to start production. A simple text based video, set to some music, pop in some video clips, a few stills make the text jump around like a PowerPoint on Redbull… We’re smart on [...]
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Kickstarter Video Production

By John On October 5, 2012 · Add Comment
More difficult than the engineering, more difficult than the coding… producing a video that expresses the idea of fotomote, a video that meets our terrible obsessive compulsive disorderly desire for perfection. We had a script, we had stills, we had time-lapse video… we had a plan. And then we stepped in front of a video [...]
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The Home Stretch

By John On September 18, 2012 · Add Comment
It’s been a long summer and we’ve been busy. Finally with a small break in the action I’ve found time to post an update. We’ve finalized the hardware from three different revisions of the original prototype. The Android app is controlling the prototypes beautifully and is truly a work of art. With a complete “alpha” [...]
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Sparkfun

By John On June 19, 2012 · Add Comment
If you’ve never visited the Sparkfun website you must. Now. Just their about page is enough to make me want to go to work there. How I long for job that reminds me of my time in an architectural design studio in college. Work hard, play hard. Wander about and look over shoulders. Admire and [...]
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More Progress

By John On June 12, 2012 · Add Comment
This video from Project Yosemite, a collaborative project by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty, is a perfect example of many of the features to be combined into the fotomote. There is, most importantly time-lapse, as well as bulb ramping to adjust for drastic changes in exposure and motion to add incredible variety during the time-lapse sequence. [...]
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Hardware Progress

By John On May 31, 2012 · Add Comment
We’ve had a busy week with the buildup and testing of the first prototype. On its most basic level the system consists of a processor, Bluetooth radio, several environmental sensors and a lithium-polymer (LiPo) battery. Yet to be added, is a real time clock integrated circuit (IC) that will allow the fotomote to autonomously control [...]
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genesis (continued)

By John On May 24, 2012 · Add Comment
Last week’s episode left us with an expensive, complicated camera and tasks for many digital imaging specialties like HDR and panorama stitching that require repetitive tasks. Several years ago I made a switch from Nikon equipment to Canon. With that swap, the already tedious task of exposure bracketing, became truly painful. In general, an expensive  camera body [...]
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genesis

By John On April 28, 2012 · Add Comment
gen·e·sis/ˈjenəsis/ Noun:  The origin or mode of formation of something. Synonyms: origin – birth – rise – provenance – origination The birth of the idea that would be come the fotomote was a result of years of my dabbling in photography, with good helping of my contract work in electronic development, lots of time exploring the [...]
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