Do It Yourself Street View Camera System for Under $1000
Mobile Content Today Feb 09 10
Have you ever looked at a Google Street View and wanted to be able to create something like that yourself. Unlike most of us, Roy D. Ragsdale actually ran with the idea as a student project at West Point, and built a...
DIY Street-View Camera (IEEE Spectrum)
He took 8 Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 webcams, 2 D-Link USB hubs, a GPS receiver, a notebook running Ubuntu Linux, and shop skills to build a 360-degree panoramic photography device with GPS location information. The total cost of this project?
- $200 for 8 LifeCam cameras ($25 each) - $50 for 2 D-Link USB hubs = $37 for a GPS receiver - $400 (estimate) for the notebook computer - $300 miscellaneous hardware
Total price = $987 (estimate)
A combination of Open Source and homebrewed software rounded out the development effort. Full story...
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