Join me for a new invention?
Posted by Frugal on December 18th, 2007
Are there any good mechanical engineers out there to join me for a new invention?
Video-taping my children has become a pain in the arm. I have thought about this a couple of times. If a person can mount the camcorder on the shoulder (probably not on the head due to a weird feeling), one can easily record videos with very few physical efforts. Of course, the biggest problem is that when you move and walk, the video quality will be terrible. But I think I may know how to solve that.
The answer is similar to those anti-noise earphones, where it cancels high noise. I’ve learned that trick in my senior year in college. That’s very old technology. Definitely decades ago.
Anyone out there, care to brain storm a little?
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December 18th, 2007 at 9:39 am
something like gel mounted stabilizer? or the poor man’s steadycam? is it a physical device or some software based processing technology that cuts out the shake?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:23 am
I think Frugal is generically talking about phase cancellation. It could be an interesting project.
Frugal, what power source were you thinking about using? Battery power from the camera?
December 19th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Not sure you could use phase cancellation in this application, could you? I don’t see how it could work in a digital video application. You could electronically stabilize individual pixels in they move at a certain frequency, but then you’d be limited in slow-moving applications.
You’d have to do this mechanically I think.
What about getting a lipstick camera and integrating it into a holster somehow?