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Announcing TPA2 touch probe

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on 2016-10-25 2 Comments
Announcing TPA2 touch probe

Finally! Yesterday received remaining parts for new touch probe. Headed straight back home to put all pieces together. I rarely publish my fails in manufacturing, but this time I’d like to share that only two minor mistakes were made. One of them was finish type. It ought to be sandblasted before anodizing process unfortunately this […]

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Heatmap motion analysis of autonomous robot

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on 2016-10-24 6 Comments
Heatmap motion analysis of autonomous robot

I have always wanted to ease my daily life and obtain vacuum robot. Many things were stopping for a while, but finally found a local company which provides demo units so could not resist taking one for a spin. What a good chance to run some computer vision processing algorithms to analyze it! Seen few […]

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New Raspberry Pi enclosure

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  • Product Features
on 2016-10-22 0 Comments
New Raspberry Pi enclosure

This is short announcement about changed Raspberry Pi enclosure revision. Revision was changed from revC to revF. Now it is slimmer, more secure and redesigned for Raspberry Pi 3 in mind while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. Also note few missing revisions – these were custom made ones I can’t publish.   What’s the difference? […]

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Don’t look at laser with remaining eye

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on 2016-09-19 0 Comments
Don’t look at laser with remaining eye

Laser is a great technological invention. One of it’s use case is to make markings on an solid object – aluminum enclosure in my case. Sandblasted and black anodized coating reveals gray material underneath. This marking is fast to apply, durable and looks awesome. First product I will be marking is Kurokesu C1 USB camera. […]

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Do you want to see the unseen?

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on 2016-09-12 0 Comments
Do you want to see the unseen?

I have always been fascinated by Infrared photography. But it was associated with big cameras and complicated rework process. Never considered using small cameras for this task until yesterday. After taking videos for new experiment (count bypassing vehicles) I switched to modified camera and captured short video of surroundings. Was surprised that camera worked flawlessly […]

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Measuring minimal and maximal microscope magnification and zoom ratio

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on 2016-09-05 0 Comments
Measuring minimal and maximal microscope magnification and zoom ratio

Magnification ratio is one of many parameters to describe optical instrument – microscope in this case. Magnification ratio usually comes along with zoom range. These terms are often being misused. In this post I will measure zoom range and magnification ratio of monocular video microscope lens and stereo inspection microscope (Konus #5424) head. Despite being […]

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Official Youtube channel

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on 2016-08-31 2 Comments
Official Youtube channel

This is short announcement to let you know that videos related to Kurokesu now have own channel on Youtube.      

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Long range license plate recognition

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on 2016-08-29 3 Comments
Long range license plate recognition

Automatic license/number plate recognition (ALPR / ANPR) is a specialized kind of optical character (OCR). Target applications might include automatic car parking control, electronic toll collection, neighborhood watch, vehicle tracking and such. Concerns about these systems have centered on privacy fears of government tracking citizens’ movements. Critics have described it as a form of mass […]

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Kurokesu C1 camera firmware upgrade

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on 2016-08-25 0 Comments
Kurokesu C1 camera firmware upgrade

Good news everyone! Friends from Sonix made custom firmware for Kurokesu C1 camera. Now camera has wider manual white balance adjustment range (9300K instead of 6500K). Also frame rate is now flexible and camera can adapt to lower light automatically. Unfortunately camera firmware can’t be upgraded remotely, if you have purchased camera before this date […]

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Unusual tasks with video files – reading bar-codes and qr-codes

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on 2016-08-22 2 Comments
Unusual tasks with video files – reading bar-codes and qr-codes

A barcode is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode – wikipedia. While first barcode was patented on 1952, it took quite a while until these codes were used in first grocery store on 1974. And now they are being used everywhere. While using […]

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