Whenever [sprite_tm] sends in his latest project, it’s like getting a Christmas present and a night off. He put together a whiteboard, x/y stepper system, serial interfaced microcontroller and added a webcam with perspective correction for the online view. Me? I’m tempted to build one of these for leaving notes for the wife when I’m out.
This is from a slightly different view -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebgiq7zuuiu
Posted at 4:37 am on Apr 29th, 2008 by xSwamp
We have electronic whiteboards in my Computer Science and Engineering building which can share their contents over the internet… but I imagine they cost many thousands of dollars more than this.
Posted at 4:38 am on Apr 29th, 2008 by jonathan
Gahhh, had stuffed up my link,
Posted at 4:40 am on Apr 29th, 2008 by xSwamp
best hack this month, hands down.
Posted at 2:26 pm on Apr 29th, 2008 by fucter
Does he not need to worry about the marker drying out?
Posted at 12:07 am on Apr 30th, 2008 by Solenoidclock
Looks like the perfect application for a pantograph to me… It would solve the problem of needing to actuate over such a large distance.
Posted at 10:30 am on Apr 30th, 2008 by ivan256
@ivan256 – I’m used to seeing a pantograph used for reduction, not enlargement. Although that does seem possible.
Posted at 9:04 am on May 1st, 2008 by chris
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whoa, that is *really* cool!!!
btw heres the (better) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTm3BrsSpGE&feature=related
Posted at 10:40 pm on Apr 28th, 2008 by andrew