[PSUBS-MAILIST] Virtual Viewports

Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles personal_submersibles at psubs.org
Sat Jan 16 19:57:36 EST 2016


Good idea about tilting the hatch forward by 10 degrees to improve forward
viability.  For the camera, have you speced it yet?  Will it be a 1 atm
pressure chamber as Jon suggest?  Have you speced the display monitor?

Cliff

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Antoine Delafargue via
Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> HI Cliff,
> for Pilot Fish, we ll have the same configuration as on your R300,
> although the hatch is tilted nearly 10° forward to improve visibility.
> We are building a camera in the nose pointing downwards in a transparent
> acrylic casing.
> and plan to relay it to a portable screen inside the sub.
> We ll see how it renders...
>
> regards
> Antoine
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> USB HD webcams are pretty cheap and can easily be put into a homebuilt
>> housing.  I am planning on using them with a small 12inch notebook for
>> video capture.  You can use multicam software like ISPY to combine multiple
>> cameras into one viewing area.  The only problem I've found is that I can't
>> get more than three cameras to work with any computer I've tried.  IP
>> Cameras are another option but are more expensive and larger so require a
>> bigger footprint on the sub.  And of course if the housing fails it will
>> hurt your pocket book more to purchase another IP cam. The advantage though
>> is that most of them have built in IR lights for night vision.
>>
>> If you want something more basic, check out Raspberry PI with Processing
>> Language for building a graphical display.  You can feed a camera to it to
>> display on a small touchscreen.  I've tried it and it works very well.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/16/2016 10:34 AM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>>
>>> With the sitting position of the pilot in the R300 and the hemispherical
>>> viewport, visibility upwards all around is excellent but visibility off to
>>> the port and starboard sides of the boat when looking down is poor.  I am
>>> interested in what experience we have collectively on using subsea cameras
>>> and displaying monitor as virtual viewports.  Has any one commissioned one
>>> of these cameras?  What brand and model did you use and what HMI or monitor
>>> did you use?  Has it worked? What has worked well and what whould do
>>> differently on your next boat?
>>>
>>>  I know from emails a few years back that Carsten was planning on using
>>> this concept rather than a physical viewport.  I would be interested in
>>> anyone's experience on this.
>>>
>>> cliff
>>>
>>>
>>>
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